Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Ken Norton needs no introduction.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. create a path to executive leadership. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) 2) 10x Thinking. (3)

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. He is now teaching Product Management courses to undergraduate students at Providence College, a role he greatly enjoys combining with his fractional CPO responsibilities.

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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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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. At your company, they might be called Chief Product Officer, VP Product, Director of Product Management, or Group Product Lead.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Leadership Forum.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. First, legacy businesses often face cultural barriers and resistance to change when it comes to implementing new technologies and practices.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . We learn by doing.

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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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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. In my experience coaching teams, this is not an automatic next step.

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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. For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why? Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. Freelance or Contractor Finally, software engineers can also choose to go the way of freelancers or contract workers.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

The company’s leadership should work to identify potential compliance gaps by analyzing data management practices, security protocols, documentation processes, and employee training programs. Book a free consult today. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. So we know that the CEO is time-slicing to cover investor pitches and office space and recruiting and benefits and legal and setting product direction and stocking the kitchen with snacks. [3]

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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. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

“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. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.

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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 ). Who was deciding on that output? We had a huge list of things that we wanted to do.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. Today, there are nearly 4,000 Atlassian under Sri’s leadership.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. 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. He was like right okay we’re gonna draw up the contracts now. There’s your lawyer, write the contract now.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. So their tagline is outcome based sales enablement, prove the revenue impact of your go to market readiness, coaching and enablement programmes. And so this is maybe a little bit rough, but I think it’s a good idea.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36! They were awarded a province-wide contract consisting of 23 cities, which is the largest project of its size awarded to a single vendor in Canada.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So the way I’ve been kind of trying to coach some teams and just think it through is if we if you were used to managing a person face to face, and now all of a sudden you’re behind a screen, right? And then the leads our leadership team meets for 90 minutes every Thursday. And then I have one on ones with my team, right.

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