Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

My hope is that this will provide you with moral support on your uncertain journey and serve as another data point to empower your vision. Without a unified design library, it was evident that there was no front-end kit or library capable of effectively supporting the engineers. Sound familiar?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. You can’t grow your business if your customers don’t trust you with their sensitive data.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The framework is based on his experience advising dozens of consumer subscription businesses, as well as his analysis of over 30,000 consumer subscription apps (based on proprietary data provided by RevenueCat ) and interviews with leaders at dozens of top consumer subscription companies. Public company market caps are from 8/30/24.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups. If you’re overseeing 52 developers and 4 product managers, your attention is mostly on engineering issues rather than product issues.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. My tips here are to.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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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. Ah, there’s the rub.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A product delivers value when it provides a fair return in exchange for time, money, goods, or services. Every product and associated backlog items have 7 Product Dimensions that incorporate functional requirements (User, Action, Data, Control dimensions) and nonfunctional requirements (Interface, Environment, Quality Attribute dimensions).

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Hint: this is how engineers would approach prioritization and roadmapping in an unemotional world of perfect information and fully aligned organizational goals. ” As introverted analyticals, we may think this is a chance get applause for our scoring, column weighting, and forecasting techniques – but there’s more going on.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Gender Gap report – women represent just 36.9% of leadership roles. Again…Why? Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. When taken in the context of his ‘coming of age’ alongside SEO it’s little wonder that his insights on the topic are worth hearing. And I would say I have a very analytical and ambitious mind.

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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. Laura Klein: Since the mid ’90s, I’ve done research, I’ve been an engineer, I’ve done user experience design, and now I do product management. What collaboration is and isn’t.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Download our Q2 FY22 earnings report here. When EMC decided to move from their Data Center deployments to Cloud, they saw a unique chance to make long-lasting improvements. “We Of note: approximately one-third of total Cloud migrations in Q2 came from Data Center. Confluence picks up where chat tools leave off.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles. I became more interested in UX and product, and over the years, transitioned to becoming a data & AI product manager. ” Shelly Shmurack Data & AI Product Manager, Aspectiva, a Walmart Global Tech company.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The data backs it up. Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. This insightful article from McKinsey & Company talks about today’s product manager evolving into a mini-CEO. As a successful product manager reading is a must.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Product professionals get paid to manage products and services. Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. Are you a great mentor or a devoted protégé? Are they mentioning customers and data? Which verbs do they use?

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Other attendees tend to be from business analytics, UX & design, development & engineering, and project management departments. Who attends Mind the Product (MTP)?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Through his time at eBay, Netscape, HP and elsewhere, Cagan has worked with lots of great product teams, and has been influential in his writing and coaching about the role of product over the years, but he acknowledges that there is still a lot of confusion about the role of a product manager. Google Adwords.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

Product managers don’t have full authority over all of the aspects that make products a success, such as user and data research, marketing, sales, or support. These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring. These factors are important in balancing the demands of engineering teams, customers, and revenue goals.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

I asked members of StubHub’s Product & Technology team to get their honest thoughts, experiences and predictions on this important topic. Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion. They did not disappoint.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. The team knew that the service wasn’t better enough to get people to change.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

They are archetypal BoS talks: honest, full of insight, and give you a peek behind the curtain at the inner workings of a successful SaaS company. Engineering Management another thing that I was good at and I’m able to keep a pace I do a lot of the things that Mikey mentioned without any numbers. But overall it was going OK.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

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. DC : Yeah an engineer, software engineer and then yes. ML : Describe David Cancel. DC : In 30 seconds? ML : Fantastic. What was the first company?

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