TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. It might be.

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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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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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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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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. And executing quickly means getting to market faster and, as a result, learning what your customers need faster.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

You’ve got your product out in the market. If the founder or product manager has a vision that is based on an interesting idea but isn’t based in data or evidence about what’s going on in the market, it’s probably doomed to fail. A clear product vision should help influence who your target market is.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 2, 2025

This laser focus enabled quicker product-market fit, word-of-mouth growth, a clear product direction, and easier customer acquisition, demonstrating the power of precision in the early stages. Gong, for example, initially targeted U.S. When faced with a 51/49 decision, make it quickly. Commit, move forward, and adjust as you go.

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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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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As I coached teams on how to make better decisions about what to build, I often got feedback that it was messy. I identify as a coach and not a consultant. I chose this market because Netflix is in 100+ countries and everybody is familiar with it. They didn’t know what to do with what they were learning.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

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. . Aligning PMs to development teams, products, segments or markets. Coaching/mentoring/training plan. 4] Working With (Other) C-Level Execs.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

“So far this week I’ve had eight coaching calls with non-customers, two coaching calls with customers, and one conference in San Francisco for B2B product managers. For example, if I’m doing lots of one-on-one coaching sessions then I would view this as research and ask myself how can I scale this delivery?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

The ultimate measure of product-market fit is customer retention. Achieving product-market fit requires patience and iteration. Find the transcript at: [link] Some takeaways: You need to “fall in love with the problem” that you’re solving. . Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

And refinement requires tough decisions that balance different stakeholder perspectives of value with how value changes over time based on evolving market conditions and customer need. She provides coaching, training, and facilitates discovery and planning workshops across diverse industries. Taking a Holistic View of Backlogs.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. If they go over budget, controls are activated to stabilize things and coach them to be more effective. There are many emerging technology and market changes that challenge the way we work and what we think good looks like.

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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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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. Apple iTunes.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 22, 2024

So if you don’t share your opinions and market your wins, you’ll limit your career progression. Start by defining your long-term career goals and envision where you want to be in 5 or 10 years. Introverts need to learn to speak up. Whether you like it or not, the business world favors extraversion.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. 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.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Companies with strong product-market fit can thrive despite internal chaos, while well-run companies may struggle if they don’t solve a real customer need. Marc Benioff Harness the power of marketing: Treat your marketing efforts with the same strategic rigor as product development.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

A really detailed 68 page analysis of the podcast market. Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 5) market-by-market (or logo-by-logo, if SaaS) comparison where denser/older networks have higher engagement over time (network effects). The podcast ecosystem in 2019. It’s super fun.

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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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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. ”) They look at roadmaps from an account-level point of view more than a market-wide perspective. Just sign here.”)

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.

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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. How can a Fractional CTO help legacy businesses implement DevOps practices? Finally, a Fractional CTO can help legacy businesses develop a roadmap for DevOps adoption.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. How will you be taking this to market? Often this ties to marketing support. How can we leverage AI to get our product to market faster?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. This situation is very common and requires the founders to close many gaps in the way they think about product management in general and their product specifically (that’s where my mentoring services come in handy ). And are they even needed?

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. 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. 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.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. I personally love to be early and use the opportunity to set the bar really high in the market. So, early advice, it was just surrounding myself with mentors, advisors, folks who have been there that we could learn from, and being open to that.

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