Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Get in touch with us here for a free consultation on your project. Lean startup practitioners document these sorts of strategic hypotheses in a lean canvas. I’ve been in this position multiple times as a founder but also as a UX expert and it can be a tricky beast to handle.

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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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development.

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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. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? On the contrary, as you will soon see, it is possible to advance into very lucrative and high-level engineering positions as an individual contributor (Principal Software Engineer). Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

Look to India, where an elite ecosystem of developers delivers world-class results at a fraction of domestic costs. As John Reynolds, CTO of a San Francisco-based fintech startup, noted: “ Arkenea’s team in India is more responsive and communicative than some local vendors we’ve worked with. The solution?

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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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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning and Market strategy. make sure your customers understand who your REAL competition is.

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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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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. Their mission is to positively impact one’s health and lifespan. It’s not very common for startups in Japan to pursue the global market. Make it easier to eat nutrient-rich foods.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

Photo by Alvaro Reyes / Unsplash T - Technical: The position is unsurprisingly a technical one. P - Program: The position is centered on developing and executing technical business programs. For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. So let's get to it.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Outgrowing your stack: Your tech stack was just right for your startup. Do your own review first so you can be confident and better positioned. Process and Team Review It’s easy for development teams, especially startup teams, to cut process corners in the name of shipping features. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Cash Position and Flow : These metrics help CEOs track how much money is at hand, what’s coming in, and how the cash is spent. What are the different roles in SaaS companies?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. 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.

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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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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game. Arcadier , an e-commerce SaaS marketplace builder based in Singapore, originally came to a Brainmates Product Management course in Singapore, before engaging us for further specialised workplace training.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? In the past ten years, we partnered with rising startups and established brands like HBO, Netflix, the United Nations World Food Programme, and Google, to name a few. Is there anything we can do for you?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Describe the path to your current position and the role mentorship has had in your career growth. “What got me in the door is someone believing in me, then I took the burden of proof as a mission in every position I ever got. in Political Economy and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.”

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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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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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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. So what are your next steps?

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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

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. So the tool I like to use is called RACI and it stands for Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed. They don’t know what you want them to do. I’m counting on you OK.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. both in the short and long term.

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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. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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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. And I think, you know, we have a much higher percentage than normal of the community in BoS who are self funded, or bootstrap, I mean bootstraped in a positive, sensible, meaningful way.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

I suggested that as someone in a position of leading a digital product team, you should always strive to make your team feel like they are in a band and not an orchestra. I’m now Chief Product Officer for FutureLearn. We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU). Product Vision.

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