Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Little would my professor know that three years later I’d build and publish an iOS application on the App Store and would be interning as a Front End Engineer at Modus Create. Joining the Modus Create Team. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business. My College Experience.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To and one engineer in Iceland.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Software, to the average person, is pretty boring. For a full version of this talk, including a video recording and transcript, click here. How to Write Copy for Your Software Company 1. Search Amazon for customer reviews on industry-related products or books. Words are actually free. Now, getting them wrong is expensive.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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Split

MARCH 19, 2024

A few dead flags in your code base are annoying and add unneeded complexity, but the more you have, the more this risk compounds. Secondly, it caused teams to start hoarding flags. Before this rule was added, occasionally, when a team or individual found themselves with some extra time, they would remove an easier-to-remove flag.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. Cyber security and compliance, it turns out, is in demand. Less than a year later, Drata was launched.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

A product without customer onboarding software is a lot like attending a dinner party where you don’t know anyone and haven’t been welcomed in. Good onboarding software contains interactive walkthroughs, modals, tooltips, segmentation options, analytics, automation, in-app surveys and help centers. Table of Contents. Userpilot.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Funnels aren’t enough to drive product growth because they create functional silos within teams, they’re expensive and time-consuming to constantly feed since they only flow in one direction. G2 is a business software and services review platform that relies on user-generated content to grow organically.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Roadmaps are shared. Demos are shown. Why Does It Matter?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth. Successful solutions architects and solutions engineers have a highly valuable skillset with a mixture of technical knowledge, communication skills, and B2B sales expertise.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As Gail Goodman said in her 2012 BoS talk, ‘ The Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death ’, these are all just mirages along the pathway to software company profitability. For a full version of this talk, including a video recording and transcript, click here. He connects this story to building a software company.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

There are several reasons for a product team to consolidate its products. Again, imagine you sell B2B software tools. Let’s say your phone only lets you make and receive calls, text, and join a video conference. Before you begin your consolidation, you want to review all related products in your portfolio closely.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2023

Find trends by collecting quantitative and qualitative data, through heatmaps , feature tags, surveys , and talking to support teams. Userpilot is a product growth platform that provides a no-code solution for collecting customer feedback. Or display video content within a resource center because the customer prefers that content.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rebecca has a background in astrophysics and computer science and spent many of her formative years looking at gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, but eventually, eager to get into software and product design, she moved to San Francisco. You don’t know when issues are going to come up. They don’t happen on a schedule.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. What does good, actionable feedback look like?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Split

JULY 30, 2019

Review: Feature Flags For Control of Code Rollouts. In my last post and video, I cleared up some confusion between the general idea of configuration flags and the specific pattern of using feature flags to decouple deployment from release. That’s the focus of today’s post and video. Let’s jump in!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? Leadership.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We liken Setapp to Netflix for Mac software: the user pays a monthly subscription and receives access to a suite of curated Mac apps. Problems with Customer Development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Google engineers and product managers practice a combination of product sense, analytics, and cross-functional communication to ship products that impact millions of users at scale. Team : If applying to a specific team (generally this isn't the case with Google roles) it helps to have someone from the team refer you.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

That’s why we recently launched Product Tours , a dead-simple onboarding tool featuring a code-free tour builder, error notifications and quick-start templates. As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. For that, you need really good onboarding.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. We’ve gathered a list of articles, videos, and podcasts you can check out: Planning for hypergrowth in EMEA with Mark Rudden of Browserstack.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

Marketing and sales are the engines of your growth. But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with. vs. The Product Growth Tool for Product Teams. If you’re a mid market company with a product team you’d probably go for ‘the Product Growth Tool for Product Teams’.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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The Product Coalition

MAY 21, 2020

Instinctively, we all know what bad design looks like. Which mean your customers know what bad design looks like. Here we’ll go over the history of Product Design, the fundamental elements of good UX, and a who’s who of the design team. Now, we can use it to describe both hardware and software design. A product designer.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2022

Team : If applying to a specific team it helps to have someone from the team refer you. A simple text message or email can do wonders for helping leverage your weak ties to get connected. Be sure to answer all the questions they have in preparing your referral for review. How do you recruit great engineers?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Jeremy Toeman is VP of Product at CNET, the world’s largest and most trusted online source of consumer technology news and reviews. Toeman also runs CNET’s audience development, engagement and social media teams. Toeman is responsible for building CNET’s multi-channel products, including web, mobile, OTT and apps. Any Questions?

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. If you haven’t worked with the Vision Board, then read the article The Product Vision Board and watch the video Product Vision Board Introduction.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 18, 2020

At Exponent , we've been operating as a remote team for most of the past year, with engineers, designers, and PMs spread across several time zones—not to mention thousands of users around the world who are part of our Slack community and Interview Practice forum.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Video, Slides, & Transcript below.

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2021

Like – my user persons is: “a SaaS product marketer who works for a large company and is in charge of increasing first-month retention” or “a UX product designer in a UX team, who is in charge of prototyping, building, and optimizing the onboarding user flow”. ActiveCampaign. Gains of using Userpilot Product Growth Platform.

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