ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. And you need to understand how the groups differ. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

We were an unfunded startup. I had worked in Linux operations and done design contract work on the side. I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on. Early on, the CTO and I had a very close working relationship. It works in a browser or on a phone. [3:23]

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management. However, it is possible for a talented tech lead, for instance, to land an engineering manager role at a smaller startup or company.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

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. The Head of Product or Product Director usually reports to the CPO in a larger organisation or to the CEO in a smaller startup or scaleup.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Bob founded The Re-Wired Group, which helps clients learn how to innovate and improve product development practices. Rich has been ‘the product guy’ at 6 startups, and now runs his own consulting business.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

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. Do you think it’s possible to combine e.g. working in tech startups with family life/motherhood? Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Elizabeth Pek, Director of Experience Design at BT Financial Group. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos. Richard Marr, APAC Regional Director at Auth0

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. I’ve had quite a varied career. Mainly in the Pharma game.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive. Now I’m a startup. So I’m a little startup in the sales enablement space. April Dunford // Ambient Strategy.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. How do we decide if there’s a special request in the next customer contract?

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Apart from providing an in-depth overview of the Sacramento web design group, we’ve collected a few frequently asked questions clients ask while looking for a design partner. Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? Capitol Tech Solutions.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

” Netali Jakubovitz Group Product Manager, Doodle. I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. Prior to LevelUp, I worked in business development, marketing, and product roles at blockchain/cryptocurrency startups. I caught the bug.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

As a weeklong celebration of technology and innovation, Techweek hosts 12 standard events — from a 2-day technology conference and expo to music, startup competitions and more, Techweek is designed to give you many opportunities to network, learn and explore with your local tech community. Lean Startup Conference.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

As a weeklong celebration of technology and innovation, Techweek hosts 12 standard events — from a 2-day technology conference and expo to music, startup competitions and more, Techweek is designed to give you many opportunities to network, learn and explore with your local tech community. Lean Startup Conference.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

As a weeklong celebration of technology and innovation, Techweek hosts 12 standard events — from a 2-day technology conference and expo to music, startup competitions and more, Techweek is designed to give you many opportunities to network, learn and explore with your local tech community. Lean Startup Conference.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

So there is discussion and other people involved in that discussion, we consult with other people and other people bring their ideas to us. But we’re now going to have two concurrent groups of teams working on two concurrent products. Like it’s sometimes it can be months. Other times it can be days. Jason Fried Okay.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. But once we make that decision as a group, I need you to stop dissenting and I need you to get on board and support the decision. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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