The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses Why do startup fail? They are all reasons the founders mentioned when asked to tell why their startups failed. They are all reasons the founders mentioned when asked to tell why their startups failed. As if that is the problem and solution to most startup problems.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Outgrowing your stack: Your tech stack was just right for your startup. Process and Team Review It’s easy for development teams, especially startup teams, to cut process corners in the name of shipping features. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas But as you’ve grown, it’s become cumbersome and constraining.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Christina has helped to grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, and the New York Times, as well as numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer. Get your tickets.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Cultural fit: The one compromise you should never make at a startup is cultural fit. and during?—?the

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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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. 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

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. 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

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. As startups, we are often competing against larger more established players that can outspend, out-market and out-sell us.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. It’s not very common for startups in Japan to pursue the global market. More About Michael Rosenzweig] Michael was a consultant for 3 years at Ernst & Young in Japan.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game. Arcadier , an e-commerce SaaS marketplace builder based in Singapore, originally came to a Brainmates Product Management course in Singapore, before engaging us for further specialised workplace training.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I’ve enjoyed working in UX research , in startups, so I imagine what I’m doing for Amplitude as a product. 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 enjoy product.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. 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. I could do my work very well.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. The Head of Product or Product Director usually reports to the CPO in a larger organisation or to the CEO in a smaller startup or scaleup.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management. However, it is possible for a talented tech lead, for instance, to land an engineering manager role at a smaller startup or company.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Rich has been ‘the product guy’ at 6 startups, and now runs his own consulting business. Read on to find out who is returning and to watch their previous knockout talks. 1 // Mikey Trafton.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2019

We’ve brought in speakers who have experience taking companies through these problems, either as CEOs/Founders scaling their own companies, or as consultants helping SaaS companies to take the leap into growth. Hiring is consistently the biggest problem for companies pushing beyond the startup phase.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): The first thing is to understand who else is actively doing something in the space, and try and get your head around how they’re doing it. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos. So what are your next steps?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction Innovation – a term that resonates deeply within the halls of tech firms and startup incubators alike. At the core of every technological breakthrough and digital advancement lies a single, unifying element: the relentless pursuit of innovation. Conclusion The importance of innovation in technology cannot be overstated.

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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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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. I’ve had quite a varied career. Mainly in the Pharma game.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive. Now I’m a startup. So I’m a little startup in the sales enablement space. April Dunford // Ambient Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Many of the world’s most successful startups have outsourced some of their work. Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? In the past ten years, we partnered with rising startups and established brands like HBO, Netflix, the United Nations World Food Programme, and Google, to name a few. Is there anything we can do for you?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. “I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. She's currently a Senior TPM at WeWork and has previously held Senior TPM positions at Facebook(Instagram) and provided consulting to MIO Partners. Whereas projects are usually more temporary and focused on a single, specific deliverable.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I made my first foray into startups when I joined Yammer where I scaled the team from 40 people to almost 400. I had a 22-person recruiting team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. While I used to be very anti remote teams, specifically for smaller startups, I’m seeing success more and more often.

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