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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Closing the Gap: Hiring A Fractional Startup CTO We’re not suggesting that early-stage startups should hire a full-time CTO.

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Hacking The Hiring Process – Alex Yang & Max Bevan on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

What they came up with is a dramatic improvement that has changed the experience for hiring managers, teams and candidates – and they have the metrics to show for it. Maximillian Bevan (Director of Product) and Alex Yang (VP of Engineering) joined us to talk about how and why they’ve made these changes.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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392: How uncovering customer pains and unmet needs led to launching a rapidly growing product – with Matt Danna

Product Innovation Educators

How this product manager created a successful product for an underserved market. Today we are taking a product journey, exploring how an insight about an underserved market turned into a valuable product and a rapidly growing company. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:35]

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Growing the Product Team at ActivePipe

BrainMates

With a clear growth strategy for the US market, Senior Product Manager, Nathan Mackinnon, and his leadership team have recognised the necessity for a well-established Product team to achieve its business goals. I’m the Senior Product Manager at Active Pipe. Can you describe ActivePipe’s Product practice?

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. And we [product managers] are often too shy or subtle to give them really clear feedback about their requests.

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Insider Secrets for High Impact Growth with Sean Ellis

Bryce York

Growth may be simple to see but; how do you engineer growth? Sean estimated the project would take 30 days when he assigned it to the VP of Engineering. But he made sure to consult the VP before locking anything down. The VP suggest that 6 weeks was more realistic and there’s no way he could do it in 30 days.