Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It’s also not a natural progression from a specific academic discipline such as a career in law, medicine, or software engineering and a lack of opportunities begets a lack of candidates. They have a healthy disrespect for the impossible, and are looking to make a positive impact on the world. Graduates Need Opportunities.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. A cross-functional team at FutureLearn.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. " and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership."

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

A few years later, in 2012, my company was acquired by SPS Commerce (NASDAQ SPSC), and as part of that acquisition, I joined their leadership team. Within several months, I noticed they had the same problem I had in my startup but at a significantly greater scale and cost.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

However, the role of a cloud architect is not an entry-level position. You will need extensive technical experience to qualify for most professional cloud architect positions. A DevOps engineer will work cross-functionally across many teams, and departments like cloud architects routinely do.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The Scope of Tech and Product in Europe It’s always useful to start with the positives, after all this isn’t a brutal takedown of all the hard work that European tech professionals do every single day. On average, there ratio of Software Engineers to full-time Product Managers is 24:1 in Europe, but 8:1 in Silicon Valley.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. Listen to our podcast here, or read the transcription below!

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. It would dramatically reduce the amount of software engineering activity we need to do.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 20, 2019

While explaining what is involved with a Technical PM position is beyond the remit of this article , it is important to understand those distinctions that justify a certain interviewing style. It will not mean the same to answer a Technical Product Manager vacancy at a growing startup , than at a large digital corporation.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You somehow have to bring together a rowdy bunch of tech professionals (data scientists, UX and UI designers , software engineers, etc) and make a valuable and functional product happen. You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

There is a fixed constant, the product, while the artist can change position and form on or around it, like features and functions. Shawna possessed the nuance of understanding localization, but she also learned desktop publishing, file editing, and gained significant software engineering exposure. Be Curious.

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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. 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

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. 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 5, 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 18, 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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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. I spend a lot of my time hanging out with entrepreneurs and innovators in large companies and small companies and startup accelerators. You’ve all heard about the Lean Startup movement right. Tendayi Viki, Author.

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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.

Analytic Tools 60

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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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DISQO

JUNE 12, 2016

This role is often a jack-of-all-trades, able to dabble in anything from software engineering to market predictions, customer surveys and sales. Unless the position is very junior, I’ll usually hire product managers who’ve actually shipped a product,” said Ken Norton, a product partner at Google Ventures.

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DISQO

JUNE 12, 2016

This role is often a jack-of-all-trades, able to dabble in anything from software engineering to market predictions, customer surveys and sales. Unless the position is very junior, I’ll usually hire product managers who’ve actually shipped a product,” said Ken Norton, a product partner at Google Ventures.

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DISQO

JUNE 12, 2016

This role is often a jack-of-all-trades, able to dabble in anything from software engineering to market predictions, customer surveys and sales. Unless the position is very junior, I’ll usually hire product managers who’ve actually shipped a product,” said Ken Norton, a product partner at Google Ventures.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick : Guru was born out of a pain I personally lived at my last startup, Boomi, which I started back in 2000. Kaitlyn : As you mentioned, this is your second startup journey. When the sales leadership and the head of IT saw that, they thought, “Oh my God, we have to put an end to this immediately.” Rick : Yes, absolutely.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. ML : Describe David Cancel.

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