Events

The Art of Engaging Millennials

The Art of Engaging MillennialsLee Caraher, CEO, Double ForteJuly 2015(no event review available)#Communication #Leadership #Org #Marketing #Tools  #Sales #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Growth #Design

7 Deadly Sins — Lessons From Silicon Valley On How To Successfully “Cross The Chasm”

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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How Product Managers Lead Through Communication

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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Innovate Or Die – Five Strategies For Optimizing Product Management At Your Company

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

“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

“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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Bootstrap your Business Model: Find Product/ Market Fit with the Back of a Napkin

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

A Fireside Chat with Derek Andersen

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.

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Meeting Archives 2014

Meeting Archives 2014 Please click on the link below to see the meetings for that year. 2021 | 2020 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000…
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Shifting To An Experimental Mindset: The Dos And Don’ts Of Hypothesis Testing

“Shifting To An Experimental Mindset: The Dos And Don’ts Of Hypothesis Testing” with Teresa Torres, Product Consultant & Coach, former CEO By Lisa Rathjens December 2014 Event “Wisdom is the balance between knowledge and doubt.” It’s not often that product managers are encouraged to actively question their confidence in their own product ideas. But doubt…
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