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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

I identify as a coach and not a consultant. Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team. We were like, yes, but everybody you know banks. Here’s the thing.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

And all of a sudden I was doing a lot of projects with banks – so I was stepping into a lot of rooms with German men in their 60s working for a bank. Sima : “When I was in Sweden – and this is what I’ve been hearing from a lot of nationalities – there is a lot of bias around your name.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

Magazine has named it one of the ‘fastest growing private companies in America’?—?for Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice It is based all over the world, with offices in Austin, Boston, Newcastle, London, Copenhagen and India.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. And so, it’s like a six-month lag between when we make that first conversation, maybe you’re spending money on marketing, or whatever, and then six months until we get a check in the bank. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money.

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How To Manage Your Badass Team | Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

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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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

And over the years we’ve made a name for ourselves being an independent company we’re a relatively small business intentionally. I graduated with a degree in finance, I didn’t want to work at a bank. So David, and I got to put some money in the bank for ourselves, which took risk off the table for us.

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Price Points Drive Organizational Behaviors

Mironov Consulting

  So it’s very rare for the CEO to buttonhole the CPO/CTO/Head of Design with a single user’s complaint.  ” Roadmaps have initiatives/projects named for single customers.    We naturally look at averages and mass motion.    So current deals tend to overwhelm company strategy.