Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

I am the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group, where we help find really good freelance jobs for high-end consultants at very large companies. I imagine when you’re working with companies like those that you’ve consulted with over the years, you end up repeating many ideas over and over. Laura: Exactly.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! A number of our customers love this feature and have had great success with it so far: “Intercom’s new Expand feature is a game changer for me and my team at Kala Burdo Consulting. Great stuff!”

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Q | How to move from being a consulting to product business. Read on… “Hi Mark, I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. I am interested in topics around handling general chaos in a fast paced company that is trying to move from being funded by consultancy to one funded by software license sales.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Before joining the public sector she was a freelance consultant and has worked with clients including Virgin Atlantic, BBC, SonyBMG, HSBC, The Economist, Drupal and the University of Surrey. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Prior to consulting he worked at Intuit, where he led the Quicken product team to record sales and profit.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Economic Growth The technology sector is a significant contributor to economic growth. Companies like Valerian Technology, with a focus on technology consulting and software architect services, play a pivotal role in this ecosystem, driving both innovation and economic prosperity.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

In this ProductTank London talk, new product and market growth consultant Laura Scanga shares some thoughts on how best to do this and which tools and exercises can be useful. Start With a Customer-first Approach. Typically C-suite stakeholders have a unique function or goal.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. Goldratt, a business consultant known for his theory of constraints, and Jeff Cox. Physics and Physical Mechanics First, let’s define physics?

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. and during?—?the the search process. But starting early is not enough. Here are my best tips.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Zalora CTO Silvia Thom has been based in Singapore since 2013 and previously worked on consumer products in Europe and Japan. But it’s coming, he says, as the more global consultancies introduce the idea of discovery and continuous discovery to their clients in the region. Market Differences.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

A technical HiPPO, such as an architect or CTO, might overrule a design or architecture. The post When HiPPOs Use Their Power to Decide for Other People appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. But sometimes, a HiPPO, the Highest Paid Person's Opinion, overrules teams and product leaders.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Should the organization work with an outside consulting company (e.g. In other cases, they might have to contract it out. This influence of the founders of the company, who typically also occupy key roles such as the CEO/CFO/CTO is critical in determining the eventual shape of the organization.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 And there’s no ongoing maintenance without a separate service contract.  If we train up an external consulting group on our API and architecture and implementation model, we can then toss that work to folks who want it.  And From this side, we see the world one account at a time.  Sequentially,

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. The History of Office Design In light of David’s post, we wanted to surface a few events that led to our current ways of working.

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Arkenea

AUGUST 23, 2024

Wali Khan, a healthcare technology leader with over two decades of experience enabling business capabilities through the development of innovative software products and solutions talks about the role of AI in current and future projects, what it takes to be a successful CTO in the healthcare sector and more.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He’s worked as a game developer at Simon and Schuster , as a producer at Nickelodeon , and had a variety of product roles at companies like Pendo and Zendesk , all interspersed with periods of consulting. I’m a train wreck of career decisions, nothing has been intentional,” John says. If those things didn’t change, I would get distracted.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. Here’s what we’ve uncovered.

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). To learn more about Izenda’s embedded BI and reporting solution, contact a BI specialist today for a free consultation and demo. Go ahead and make an exhaustive list, then include everyone who is important for the project’s success. IT Administrators. Business Process Analysts.

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“It became clear to us from the beginning that we had to find ways to give each team a space to organize their flags and prevent teams from stepping on each other’s toes when it comes to managing feature flags. ” – Patricio Echague , Co-founder & CTO, Split Software. This idea is called the expand-contract pattern.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

The convergence of technology and hospitality holds immense potential to shape the future of the industry, creating memorable experiences and driving sustainable growth. Book a free consult today.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

Additionally, there were several consulting and agency teams supporting all sorts of applications and building proof-of-concepts. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. Some were even using InDesign for wireframing, while others handed off their designs in PDF files for stakeholder sign-off. “In

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

This generally happens when the company is forced to reduce its workforce because they’ve run into financial problems or a contract got canceled or they are closing a branch office. I was placed into an office that I shared with the company’s CTO and their head engineer. One is that you get laid off. You get the point.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team. This is not because they don’t care, but because there may be more effort put into achieving the goal stated in the contract than into achieving what the market demands.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. The complexity of what we were trying to accomplish became more evident as each day passed. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

Embracing a partnership with a Fractional CTO, who is well-versed in data analytics and technology, enables e-commerce companies to unlock the full potential of their data and propel their business toward sustainable growth. Book a free consult today.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” It’s a rare executive who doesn’t push her/his VP Engineering or CTO hard on productivity, hiring ramps and fanciful notions about increased commitments leading to better outcomes. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

How Much Does a Chief Product Officer Earn? The average CPO’s salary varies depending on what source your consult. Chief Product Officer vs. Chief Technology Officer. It’s important to be able to answer the question of, what does a chief product officer do? Innovation.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Who must be consulted? Adding an embedded video to the CTO’s sales presentation that explains technical decisions and future directions. Confusion about roles and responsibilities exists in most organizations. Who is responsible? Who is informed? Scheduling webinars about technical directions.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Who must be consulted? Adding an embedded video to the CTO’s sales presentation that explains technical decisions and future directions. Confusion about roles and responsibilities exists in most organizations. Who is responsible? Who is informed? Scheduling webinars about technical directions.

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