Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In this ProductTank Heidelberg talk, Konstantin Diener, CTO and Co-founder at product design consultancy Cosee, delves into continuous discovery by sharing his experiences of designing a platform for board and card game trade fair Spiel Digital when in 2020 it needed to shift from an in-person to a digital event.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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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. Should you go work at a startup?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 2, 2025

In our conversation, we discuss: Gong’s unique approach to working with design partners Their unique pod model Why Eilon makes big decisions quickly Lessons learned from being early in AI The power of extreme focus His “spiral method” for learning complex topics quickly How to maintain quality while optimizing for speed Find the transcript (..)

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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 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. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) R&D is not correlated to innovation. 2) 10x Thinking. (3)

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ProductCraft

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On this week’s episode of Product Love, I sat down with Cai GoGwilt, the CTO of Ironclad. Ironclad is digital contract management software that lets companies design and deploy any type or complexity contract on their own. In this episode, we talked a lot about core values and evangelizing the product.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. And that is precisely the gap that a strong fractional CTO can fill.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Get in touch with us here for a free consultation on your project. 9 Take constant and incremental step towards the vision Simon Cast , CTO & co-founder at ProdPad If you have a product vision, I hope it’s big. Want to get your app development project off the ground?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. And the response was overwhelming. The question was not, “should we do this?”

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

I had worked in Linux operations and done design contract work on the side. I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on. Early on, the CTO and I had a very close working relationship. It was exciting, but challenging to figure out without the resources of a large company. [5:30]

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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. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

AI-driven document review and analysis expedite the handling of large volumes of legal documents, contracts, and case files, saving considerable time and labor costs. Contract management is streamlined as AI systems monitor contract lifecycles, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks of costly oversights.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

EBG Consulting. She is founder and principal of EBG Consulting , which helps organizations adapt how they collaborate to improve business outcomes. He is a West Point graduate, former fighter pilot and cancer researcher, as well as CTO of eleven different software companies. Gottesdiener, Ellen and Mary Gorman. Sutherland, Jeff.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

I am the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group, where we help find really good freelance jobs for high-end consultants at very large companies. I imagine when you’re working with companies like those that you’ve consulted with over the years, you end up repeating many ideas over and over. Laura: Exactly.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

In this ProductTank London talk, new product and market growth consultant Laura Scanga shares some thoughts on how best to do this and which tools and exercises can be useful. Start With a Customer-first Approach. Typically C-suite stakeholders have a unique function or goal.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I identify as a coach and not a consultant. Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team. They didn’t know what to do with what they were learning.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! A number of our customers love this feature and have had great success with it so far: “Intercom’s new Expand feature is a game changer for me and my team at Kala Burdo Consulting. Great stuff!”

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

The Role of Fractional CTO in Enhancing Cybersecurity A Fractional CTO can provide invaluable expertise and guidance in strengthening an insurance company's cybersecurity defenses. Partnering with a Fractional CTO brings the necessary expertise and guidance to enhance an insurance company's cybersecurity defenses.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Before joining the public sector she was a freelance consultant and has worked with clients including Virgin Atlantic, BBC, SonyBMG, HSBC, The Economist, Drupal and the University of Surrey. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Prior to consulting he worked at Intuit, where he led the Quicken product team to record sales and profit.

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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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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Zalora CTO Silvia Thom has been based in Singapore since 2013 and previously worked on consumer products in Europe and Japan. But it’s coming, he says, as the more global consultancies introduce the idea of discovery and continuous discovery to their clients in the region. Market Differences.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. Goldratt, a business consultant known for his theory of constraints, and Jeff Cox. Physics and Physical Mechanics First, let’s define physics?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Should the organization work with an outside consulting company (e.g. In other cases, they might have to contract it out. This influence of the founders of the company, who typically also occupy key roles such as the CEO/CFO/CTO is critical in determining the eventual shape of the organization.

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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? Freelance or Contractor Finally, software engineers can also choose to go the way of freelancers or contract workers. Instead, these companies may simply employ engineering managers and a Chief Technology Officer to oversee them.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He’s worked as a game developer at Simon and Schuster , as a producer at Nickelodeon , and had a variety of product roles at companies like Pendo and Zendesk , all interspersed with periods of consulting. I’m a train wreck of career decisions, nothing has been intentional,” John says. If those things didn’t change, I would get distracted.”

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