Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. But the intention is, how do you close gaps? Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He says he’s found a book by Ed Schein called Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help , about the power dynamics in trying to help people, to have been especially useful in building relationships. So, as someone who lives and breathes product management and product thinking, how does he find playing a supporting role? “I

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

From the discussion you’ll learn: Sources for product ideas, How to validate your plans for solving the customers’ problem, and. We were an unfunded startup. I had worked in Linux operations and done design contract work on the side. Early on, the CTO and I had a very close working relationship.

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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. They have to know how to competently manage people and projects, as well. SWE do not usually spend much of their time in these ways.

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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. Unless you figure out how to inegrate work and life in a harmonious way you will never be happy.

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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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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

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. Are you happy with that?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2019

We’ve brought in speakers who have experience taking companies through these problems, either as CEOs/Founders scaling their own companies, or as consultants helping SaaS companies to take the leap into growth. How do you ensure your users value and pay for your product? How can I maintain a focus and trust as we grow?

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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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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Q | How to move from being a consulting to product business. Read on… “Hi Mark, I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. How do I make the jump from big company to small, entrepreneurial, startup? How can a company move from a consulting to a product business?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. The org chart for a very early startup usually looks like this: the CEO does everything except tech. What kills startups are massive numbers of opportunities and no hard choices about which things are important.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We are confident you know how to spend it effectively and where your business needs you the most. These questions will help you better understand what offers are available on the market and how to find, assess and pick the most suitable Sacramento web design firm. How to choose the best Sacramento web design company?

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

While you might be eager to dive in, it can be a little overwhelming to know how to get started. How do you make the most impact without confusing your team or disrupting the projects they’re already working on? We’d all transitioned to working from home instead of being in the office and figuring that out.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. “I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. They must be able to make prudent decisions when it comes to how to best apply an organization's time, resources, and personnel to achieve some end. Whereas projects are usually more temporary and focused on a single, specific deliverable.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In this interview, we dig into when remote hiring makes sense for a company, how to actually source remote candidates, how to hire the right team members, and much more. Michael: To provide a bit of context for our readers, can you share a little about your background and how you landed in your role at Craft Ventures ?

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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. Google updates can put the SEO world into disarray, we hear from Kevin how he’s been impacted previously and how to mitigate against this in the future ( Spoiler: get ready to prune ). Kevin: Absolutely.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them. And this is how you use it.

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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

And I was doing that because that’s all I knew how to do. The teams decide how to build the thing. And then the individual teams have a lot of autonomy and control over exactly how to build the things that we decide we need to do as a company. How did you structure the teams, how to get people focused on the right things?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU). So here’s my advice for how you go from being a singer/songwriter to – instead of conducting an orchestra – creating a festival instead. Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. Singer/Songwriter.

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