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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. Getting something to market and getting funding override any other concerns. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

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392: How uncovering customer pains and unmet needs led to launching a rapidly growing product – with Matt Danna

Product Innovation Educators

How this product manager created a successful product for an underserved market. Today we are taking a product journey, exploring how an insight about an underserved market turned into a valuable product and a rapidly growing company. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:35]

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. ”) They look at roadmaps from an account-level point of view more than a market-wide perspective.

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Growing the Product Team at ActivePipe

BrainMates

ActivePipe is an email marketing automation platform in the real estate space looking to grow its Product culture and practice. We sat down with Nathan to learn more about his role at Active Pipe and why building a great Product team and culture is important to the company’s success. It actually came from the CEO.

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Insider Secrets for High Impact Growth with Sean Ellis

Bryce York

Sean also popularized the term product/market fit and coined the term growth hacking. The days of traditional interruption marketing are dead. Universities mightn’t have noticed, but marketing success isn’t measured by impressions and exposure anymore. An Anecdote from GrowthHackers.com.

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Who’s Speaking at Amplify 2019?

Amplitude

And Amplify has something for more than just PMs—our speakers come from a host of backgrounds including growth marketing, engineering, and customer experience. However, the idea for a cloud-based conferencing tool sat idle for over a decade while Eric worked as Cisco’s Corporate VP of Engineering. Merci Grace.

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What is the Role of a Technical Program Manager?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. They would then formulate a program charged with the software delivery, of which a TPM would manage. Primarily, TPMs work extensively with the engineering teams in their organization.