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! When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers. Should you go work at a startup?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Get in touch with us here for a free consultation on your project. Lean startup practitioners document these sorts of strategic hypotheses in a lean canvas. 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.

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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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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

We were an unfunded startup. 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 works in a browser or on a phone. [3:23]

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Cultural fit: The one compromise you should never make at a startup is cultural fit. and during?—?the

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Christina has helped to grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, and the New York Times, as well as numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer. Get your tickets.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. I identify as a coach and not a consultant. Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of evolution in these practices. The first big change that we’ve seen is that our delivery cadence has changed.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. No Market Need.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. 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.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I’ve enjoyed working in UX research , in startups, so I imagine what I’m doing for Amplitude as a product. 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 enjoy product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. Do you think it’s possible to combine e.g. working in tech startups with family life/motherhood? Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses Why do startup fail? They are all reasons the founders mentioned when asked to tell why their startups failed. They are all reasons the founders mentioned when asked to tell why their startups failed. As if that is the problem and solution to most startup problems.

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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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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. I’ve worked at both Google and at startups and share the pros and cons. We've got your covered.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.” How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management?

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction Innovation – a term that resonates deeply within the halls of tech firms and startup incubators alike. At the core of every technological breakthrough and digital advancement lies a single, unifying element: the relentless pursuit of innovation. Conclusion The importance of innovation in technology cannot be overstated.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Many of the world’s most successful startups have outsourced some of their work. Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team.

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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. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. It’s not very common for startups in Japan to pursue the global market. More About Michael Rosenzweig] Michael was a consultant for 3 years at Ernst & Young in Japan.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Q | How to move from being a consulting to product business. Read on… “Hi Mark, I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. I am interested in topics around handling general chaos in a fast paced company that is trying to move from being funded by consultancy to one funded by software license sales.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Outgrowing your stack: Your tech stack was just right for your startup. Process and Team Review It’s easy for development teams, especially startup teams, to cut process corners in the name of shipping features. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas But as you’ve grown, it’s become cumbersome and constraining.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. The org chart for a very early startup usually looks like this: the CEO does everything except tech. What kills startups are massive numbers of opportunities and no hard choices about which things are important.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. 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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. She's currently a Senior TPM at WeWork and has previously held Senior TPM positions at Facebook(Instagram) and provided consulting to MIO Partners. Whereas projects are usually more temporary and focused on a single, specific deliverable.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. A few years later, joined a startup. I could do my work very well.

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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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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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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

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. The Head of Product or Product Director usually reports to the CPO in a larger organisation or to the CEO in a smaller startup or scaleup.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game. Arcadier , an e-commerce SaaS marketplace builder based in Singapore, originally came to a Brainmates Product Management course in Singapore, before engaging us for further specialised workplace training.

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