The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If it took Marty almost 10 years to address this important aspect of product leadership, no wonder many product leaders don’t understand that this is part of their role. Whether you are doing it yourself or as part of the CPO Bootcamp , remember that your role as a product leader is not to lead the company’s product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

John has held product roles at various companies in different stages, most recently serving as the Senior Director of Product Management at SugarCRM. He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. This isn’t ideal.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

A CPO must coordinate employees from various functional areas, including software engineers, product managers, UX/UI designers, analysts, and marketers. Product marketing. A key element of product development is creating an effective marketing strategy. Leadership. A CPO is, above all, a leader.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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Mixpanel

MARCH 11, 2024

This isn’t your typical executive “thought leadership.” But just because Benn tells me his writing isn’t “useful” in the ways that most content marketing strategies would hope for, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t offer business value alongside its obvious entertaining and edifying values. You’re a company founder and a CTO.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. Rich Mironov wrote The Art of Product Management and is a voice for the scrappy entrepreneur in all of us. Cross-functional leadership.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? How do product managers lead standups? The above mentioned sounds simple enough, yet, we still find many stories online and on social media about challenges product leaders face when it comes to leading daily standups successfully.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an and during?—?the

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product. In the Empowered Product Team model, product leadership sets the overall direction and prioritizes the problems to be solved.

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APRIL 15, 2021

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MARCH 2, 2021

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

After a while, I started feeling more comfortable in the cybersecurity world and was able to talk intelligently about my product and the market. I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one But don’t ask them to make the product decisions for you, either explicitly or implicitly.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

How to get into product management – This newsletter discusses whether a product management role is right for you, how to kickstart your career, and the essential skills you need to have.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are more than 1 billion Macs and PC’s running Office around the world. Martina has gone on to have a remarkable career, in both product management and product marketing. ” It’s important to note that she did this as an individual contributor product manager.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 One group (sales, implementation/customer success, professional services, account-based marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on one customer at a time , with current-quarter timelines.  Especially at the leadership level, this calls for more empathy, pattern recognition, and cross-functional goal alignment.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 10, 2021

Purpose Landscape Climate Doctrine Leadership. Leadership. You need to be able to explain why you go in one direction and not another, you need to consider how you want to act in the market (context specific) as well as the more universal doctrines. Wardley maps map onto the same cycle. The Wardley map.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. Disruptive products are low priced and high volume. The products are easy to use and provide immediate results for customers. The competition components are beyond technology.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anyone in product for a few years quickly notices no fixed definition of product management from one company to another. 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.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s a few that stand out in different ways but this is by no means a ranked list… Product, marketing, strategy, operations and company growth. Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony: Building a minimum badass user A completely different way of thinking about your product and your users.

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MARCH 8, 2021

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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.

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MARCH 5, 2021

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MARCH 11, 2021

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

12 things about product-market fit. I really love this post because most PMs struggle to conceptualize product-market fit, since it varies from product to product. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. It’s a compelling and non-BS answer relevant for PMs at any sized-company.

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