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Beats, Bootstrapping and Life – Mat Clayton on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

Mind the Product

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Ken Norton needs no introduction. Should you go work at a startup?

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

It’s been quite entertaining over the years, actually, there been a lot of people. Did you say oh, well, my consulting company was called info zerk. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. You don’t want to call for that other name.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

So there is discussion and other people involved in that discussion, we consult with other people and other people bring their ideas to us. Like it wouldn’t be fun, wouldn’t be entertaining ,wouldn’t be interesting to us. Like it’s sometimes it can be months. Other times it can be days. Attendee Thank you.