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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

As one of the first 35 employees, her first order of business was to launch Pinterest internationally and close the Series C financing. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer. Nir Eyal, Author and Investor.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

Userpilot

Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

You speak finance, technical and customer, connecting the dots for all three. See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. You observe, interrogate and solve their problems.

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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

Mironov Consulting

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. A friend of mine is working in finance as a compliance manager, and every New Year’s party the guys are literally harassing women.

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Hypotheticals in Product Management Meetup: Abridged Transcript

BrainMates

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): The first thing is to understand who else is actively doing something in the space, and try and get your head around how they’re doing it. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos. So what are your next steps?

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What Do You Really Need: In-House Team, Outsourcing or a Tech Partner?

The Product Coalition

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Many of the world’s most successful startups have outsourced some of their work. Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team.