The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

Cross-functional participation improves outcomes : Involving engineering and design early in discovery fosters shared understanding and reduces rework. From Startup Tactics to Enterprise Strategy RSVP now at your local chapter to join or receive the recording & recap afterwards. Discovery is not just a PM function.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 12, 2025

Harpal discusses how founding his own startup and building an e-commerce recommendation engine helped him transition into product management. Lessons from a Startup : Insights from launching and closing a tech venture. Lessons from a Startup : Insights from launching and closing a tech venture.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Here’s what strategic partner PayPal did to bring scaled product management to life for this startup-oriented software engineer. Most of my experience has been with startups, so I wanted to work for a large company and see how that is different from a startup experience,” he said. Those were my questions.

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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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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. Example: Sarah is a support manager at a fast-growing startup. Not a persona.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

John Doerr’s startup companies would even write their OKRs in the bathroom for everyone to see. How could your team use cross-functional OKRs to improve collaboration between product, engineering, and other departments? What shared outcomes could create better alignment across these teams?

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Product PickEm 2025: The Ultimate Startup Showdown The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. April 4: The final battleonly one startup will take the crown. Who makes it to the finals? Thats up to YOU.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. Welcome to Product PickEm 2025 , where the best emerging product tool startups go head-to-head in a bracket-style competition, and YOU decide which ones rise to the top via our LinkedIn polls on the Productside page.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned. Volunteer for early-stage startups or open-source projects to work on real product initiatives. Strategies for Maintaining Product Vision Without Losing Adaptability Use a structured prioritization framework (e.g.,

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Ever since I took my first step into the dynamic landscape of the startup scene in Israel, proclaimed as the ‘Startup Nation,’ my professional journey has been a continual source of learning over many years. A significant factor contributing to this is the trend of Israeli startups primarily targeting US or European markets.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For this edition of Product in Practice, were not talking with a product manager, a designer, a UX researcher, or even an engineer. That was good to learn and understand the principles, but we later identified different aspects that work better for us and some that are not applicable, like the engineer role in interviews, explains Eva.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. In the startup context.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Previously, he spent nearly eight years at Palantir, working as a forward-deployed engineer. Removing hierarchical titles (making everyone “forward-deployed engineers”) reduced internal competition and politics, forcing recognition based on merit and impact rather than position.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Each major release deadline created a high pressure environment with engineers working overtime in the weeks prior in order to meet delivery dates.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. Magdaline has fifteen years’ consulting in startups, health care, and financial services with clients such as JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, and Wells Fargo.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

He co-founded a Machine Learning technology startup and served as CPO / VP of Product at intu plc (FTSE 100), Selligent Marketing Cloud, Epica.ai Drew has 20 years of experience working with companies, from startups to Fortune 500s, to help conceive of and build digital products to succeed in the marketplace.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Companies still isolate innovation to a lab or a new product development team, and the reality is that ideas can come from anyone whether they work within engineering, sales, marketing, etc. The ability of a PM to pull ideas from everyone and filter them to meet customer needs is truly the mark of someone who knows what they’re doing.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We need engineers involved throughout. I started my career as a software engineer. The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery: A Quick Recap Back in the ’90s, a lot of times these decisions came from executives, from business stakeholders, and we treated our engineers like they were IT order-takers.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, with the growing need for innovation and agility, many of these companies are looking at methodologies like Lean Startup to help them adapt and thrive in turbulent waters. In this scenario, trying to implement the Lean Startup methodology might be like suggesting that “shortcut” to the ocean liner.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

You have brought together some of the best robotics engineers and have raised money from some of the best Venture Capitalists in the valley. Some aspect of the above story is often seen playing out within many companies and startups alike everywhere. As the Lean Startup methodology suggests, build-measure-learn.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. We’re willing to give you engineering credits for $300,000, but the total cost is $ 1 million.”

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

This allows us to develop teams of deep domain experts to support and enable product engineers as they build the next generation of Intercom, and provide world class observability tooling, scaling, reliability, and secure-by-default build patterns. . This allows engineers to observe production without the need to write any additional code. .

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

His name is Narasimha Krishnakumar, and he is the Global CPO for Wind River, a cloud-based IoT company, and he is also an advisor and a product consultant to startups and new ventures. . Work collaboratively with engineering teams, quality teams, your DevOps organization, etc., 3:16] What are your responsibilities as a Global CPO?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

After all, excellent design and engineering can only come from product teams that are empowered to solve hard problems and build great software. In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. Alignment on great product teams.

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DevelopmentCorporate

MARCH 29, 2025

Effective prompt engineering is key to leveraging Generative AI for SaaS competitive intelligence. The post Leveraging Generative AI for Enhanced SaaS Competitive Research Through Expert Prompt Engineering appeared first on Development Corporate.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 25, 2025

An engineer turned marketer, Krithika brings a uniquely analytical approach to marketing. At OpenAI, she established marketing foundations for ChatGPT for consumers and enterprises, as well as their developer API platform. While at Stripe, she spent over eight years building and scaling their marketing function from scratch.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Earlier in his career, Greg was a prolific entrepreneur, participating in fourteen startups (founding four) and holding executive roles in organizations ranging from startups to billion-dollar enterprises. His book, Start Your Startup Right , is available on Amazon. He has served on numerous boards, both profit and nonprofit.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 18, 2020

Holly Hester-Reilly, the founder of H2R Product Science and a former Chemical Engineer, uses her background to apply scientific principles and techniques to product development. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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