Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. To understand why Run Less Software is so important, let’s map out the battlefield, the armies on it, their missions and their strategies. Innovative startups.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2020

In brief, Spotify was growing rapidly and introduced some new ways of working incorporating team groups they called squads and tribes that acted as autonomous mini-startups with a range of skillsets and mini-CEOs. Software engineers were managed outside of the team structure. They are by their nature viral.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

Using Apptentive Notes, you can follow up with a group of variant participants to let them know that the functionality they tested in beta is now generally available in your product. Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software designed to foster better customer relationships.

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Balsamiq

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the last few months we sat down with 2 content designers , a startup founder , 2 folks with flourishing side projects , and an owner of a UX design firm. Emileigh is a Content Strategist and leads a group of designers at Capital One working on the Capital One Cafe brand. Emileigh Barnes. Iheanyi Ekechukwu.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

In the past, I’ve had the chance to work on developing products as a software engineering intern and as a business development intern at a startup. That same summer, I also worked at a stealth startup, expanding their sales funnel and leading outreach efforts. How did you break into product management? What do you think?”

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2018

She is currently running a startup in Australia and lecturing on product management for INSEAD. She started her career as a software engineer. Silvia Thom is Senior Director Product Management at ZALORA Group for 5 years and she is co-organising Product Tank Singapore. Deepa Rajan is a Product Manager at Oracle India.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Our group of experienced Product Managers works closely with C-suite leadership teams to build products, prototypes and MVPs. Based in Montreal, Bain Public is a digital product consultancy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes. The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

Today, a software engineer, a researcher, or a machine learning professional can design a small data/small computing model on a laptop. Likewise, they can undertake that model at an erratic scale on a data center with any hindrance of group-size, manual attempts, or time. She also writes for data science company.

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All About Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2008

During his career he has performed most of the roles that are key to any technology company: product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, engineering management, and general management. I was a software engineer at HP Labs.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Our group of experienced Product Managers works closely with C-suite leadership teams to build products, prototypes and MVPs. Based in Montreal, Bain Public is a digital product consultancy.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Our group of experienced Product Managers works closely with C-suite leadership teams to build products, prototypes and MVPs. Based in Montreal, Bain Public is a digital product consultancy.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Our group of experienced Product Managers works closely with C-suite leadership teams to build products, prototypes and MVPs. Based in Montreal, Bain Public is a digital product consultancy.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Unsure of what tech career path she wanted to tread, Oluwatobi’s career began at a startup. “At startups, you get to be hands-on in almost everything that’s needed for the company to succeed,” she says, “and so I started software development, learnt animation, offered IT support, and customer service.”

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. For San Francisco, the group began to discuss the surge percentages in the city’s seven-by-seven versus East Bay, versus the Peninsula.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

In our previous discussion on the topic of trends, we broadly categorised important trend shifts into 3 different groups: Technical trends Business trends Design trends Business skills are essential for people who build products. And whilst some roles in product require a background in software engineering, these are usually optional.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It’s something that Marty Cagan, author and founder of Silicon Valley Product Group , set out to answer in his book Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love. You had a lightbulb moment when working as a software engineer on a high profile product at Hewlett Packard in the 1980s?—?and For two reasons.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. However I do believe it's important to show you can be a good partner to engineering.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. She has 7+ years of experience in startups and startup-like teams and most recently led an innovation lab as a product manager in 2019. Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

The typical salary for a DevOps engineer is $116,657/year. The Network Administrator Path to Cloud Architect Besides a start in software engineering, the other typical career start for a cloud architect is first working as a network or systems administrator. This may not be the case at startup or early-stage companies, however.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 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. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 24, 2022

For instance, a business will not have the same operational needs right before its IPO compared to when it was merely a startup. Suppose you're a business operations manager at a smaller company or early-stage startup. Some Biz Ops managers may find startup operations a little more compelling.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

In the past, I’ve had the chance to work on developing products as a software engineering intern and as a business development intern at a startup. That same summer, I also worked at a stealth startup, expanding their sales funnel and leading outreach efforts. How did you break into product management? What do you think?”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I was fortunate to get this - I met one of their software engineers at a hackathon, chatted with him for a few minutes before requesting a mock interview. I reached out to the founders of Timber.io, a logging startup in Brooklyn, NY. I wanted to learn what it was like working at a small, but rapidly growing startup.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

The responsibilities of a technical program manager are a little more big picture than that of a software engineer. Watch a Startup founder answer this question here. Many begin as software engineers. For example, these questions are typically focused on system design. Watch a sample answer to this question here.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) was created to share lessons learned and best practices about how to build innovative products customers love. 280 Group Location: Los Gatos, California.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 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. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2019

Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love Inspiration, tools and techniques, and practical help Marty Cagan founded Silicon Valley Product Group to help and inspire other PMs, condensing years of experience into this book. All age groups and industries are covered, ‘leaving no stone unturned’ as the author likes to put it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Shawna possessed the nuance of understanding localization, but she also learned desktop publishing, file editing, and gained significant software engineering exposure. Shawna went from project to project, creating websites, and working for startups. Shawna stated, “I was immediately hooked from there.”.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2022

These methods will typically include user surveys, focus groups, data collection, A/B testing , etc. A user persona is a character or archetype of a specific kind of user that shares particular traits or needs with the larger group. Instead, they are semi-fictional stand-ins for larger groups.

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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. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software. This conference serves a great purpose to give a home to a more mature, understated-but-enormous part of the software industry. Company: Medium.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software. This conference serves a great purpose to give a home to a more mature, understated-but-enormous part of the software industry. Company: Medium.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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. A few years later, joined a startup. Keeping momentum going as a startup.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A growth engineering team is a cross-functional team of marketers, product developers, and software engineers. What is growth engineering? Growth engineering is a technical and systematic approach to organizational growth. Growth engineering Venn diagram. Growth engineering examples. Acquisition.

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