The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team. This is not because they don’t care, but because there may be more effort put into achieving the goal stated in the contract than into achieving what the market demands.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2021

There are so many other ways. // 5 min read $aaS – Interesting innovation in alternative finance. A marketplace for institutions to bid on recurring revenue contracts. A very VC centric view of best practice in developing new territories.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. The post Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. That’s why I called it “typical.” See Part 2.

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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. We needed something that would scale with us today. A fond farewell.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

You speak finance, technical and customer, connecting the dots for all three. 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. You observe, interrogate and solve their problems.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

A friend of mine is working in finance as a compliance manager, and every New Year’s party the guys are literally harassing women. And even with freelance contracts – even when on paper we’re contracted to work 20 hours and we’re paid for 20 hours, we are expected to work 60 hours. Maja : “Some women really have it tough.

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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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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people. Rich Mironov: “Do you know what finances are? How do we decide if there’s a special request in the next customer contract? How about HR policy around payroll?”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice It is based all over the world, with offices in Austin, Boston, Newcastle, London, Copenhagen and India. They are truly committed to the success of the project and work closely with our team.”? —?Dave

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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.

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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. .

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next is February 6th – 8th, 2017 in New York City, and aims to raise the question “what’s next in design, for professionals, consultants, studios and enterprises alike?” The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next is February 6th – 8th, 2017 in New York City, and aims to raise the question “what’s next in design, for professionals, consultants, studios and enterprises alike?” The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next is February 6th – 8th, 2017 in New York City, and aims to raise the question “what’s next in design, for professionals, consultants, studios and enterprises alike?” The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

11:22 Mark: And were you considering equity finance at the same time? 19:57 Mark: And what can you say about that, in terms of kind of finances of the business when you were raising? Did you say oh, well, my consulting company was called info zerk. And you can do it at a much better interest rate. I’d come join the team.

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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

MARCH 24, 2021

I graduated with a degree in finance, I didn’t want to work at a bank. That wasn’t my, I don’t know, I just got a degree in finance because I felt like I could I was good at it. So there is discussion and other people involved in that discussion, we consult with other people and other people bring their ideas to us.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2024

  An enterprise software company with $150,000 average sale looks and behaves very differently from a music stream service or consumer finance app charging $8/month.    So it’s very rare for the CEO to buttonhole the CPO/CTO/Head of Design with a single user’s complaint. 

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