September Event Review: SVPMA Recruiter Panel By Pushpa Chandrashekaraiah September 2015 Event On September 2, a panel moderated by Jeanne Lew, Associate Director at Haas School of Business, was very insightful for not only product management job seekers but also for all product managers on how to build strong profiles. The panelists had very successful…
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August Event Review: “When Sharks Attack! – How Data Saves Product Managers From Becoming Shark Bait” with Robert Green, Director Product Management, Tableau Software By Neha Nayak August 2015 Event “Tonight we are going to talk about sharks, data and how data is going to help product managers stay away from becoming shark bait” was…
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The Art of Engaging MillennialsLee Caraher, CEO, Double ForteJuly 2015(no event review available)#Communication #Leadership #Org #Marketing #Tools #Sales #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Growth #Design
June Event Review: 7 Deadly Sins — Lessons From Silicon Valley On How To Successfully “Cross The Chasm” with Michael Eckhardt, Managing Director of Chasm Institute By Dan Galatin June 2015 Event Michael Eckhardt, managing director of Chasm Institute, presented at the June 3rd meeting of the SVPMA. Michael led a lively discussion of Chasm’s…
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by Barry Mohn – Speak and Write “Our product managers need to be the CEOs of their products.” This is what a senior director declared at a meeting I attended recently. We were there to discuss leadership training for his Silicon Valley high-tech company, and the focus that day was squarely on his product managers’…
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May Event Review: “Innovate Or Die – Five Strategies For Optimizing Product Management At Your Company” with Brian Lawley, CEO 280 Group LLC By Helene Eichler May 2015 Event Brian Lawley kicked off a lively and interactive May SVPMA program with asking how many product managers were in the audience. He explained how the 280…
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“Innovate Or Die – Technology, Innovation, And Product Management: A Discussion And Case Study” with Nivedita Ojha, Sr. Director Product Management at Citrix By Dan Galatin April 2015 Event Nivedita Ojha, Senior Director of Product Management at Citrix, presented at the April 1st meeting of the SVPMA. Nivedita discussed the whys and hows of innovation…
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“Datacenter Architecture For The Next Decade” with Howard Ting, Senior VP of Marketing at Nutanix, Inc. By Pushpa Chandrashekaraiah March 2015 Event This was a very different topic from most of the SVPMA monthly events, in terms of the topic itself and depth of technical details covered in this session. Howard Ting talked about how…
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February 2015Bootstrap your Business Model: Find Product/ Market Fit with the Back of a NapkinBernie Maloney, Agile Coach/ Intra*preneur / Lecturer (no event review available)#Growth #Market_Analysis #Marketing #Design #Tools #Growth #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Readiness #Launch #Strategy #Planning #Finance
January Event Review: A Fireside Chat with Derek Andersen, founder and CEO of Startup Grind By Dan Galatin January 2015 Event Derek Andersen was the subject of a freewheeling, lively interview at the January 7th SVPMA meeting. He fielded questions on startups, bootstrapping, entrepreneurship and many other topics from host Ian Sweeney and the audience.