Tag: Entrepreneurship

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.

A photo of a stack of random calendar pages

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…
Read more

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…
Read more

The Usual Suspects: Solutions Beneath The Surface Of Organizational Chaos

“The Usual Suspects: Solutions Beneath The Surface Of Organizational Chaos” with Dr. Gary Katzenstein, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley By Pushpa Chandrashekaraiah November 2014 Event Dr. Gary Katzenstein from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley discussed his framework of The Usual Suspects by going over a case study about the United…
Read more

The Leadership Crisis of the Digital Age and What You Can Do About It

October 2014The Leadership Crisis of the Digital Age and What You Can Do About ItDan Kimble, CEO, Resonance Executive Coaching(Event Review Not Available)#Leadership #Org #Startups #Entrepreneurship

Is Product Management Obsolete?

“Is Product Management Obsolete?” with Rich Mironov, Agile product management expert, start-up exec, author, B2B software guy at Mironov Consulting By Helene Eichler August 2014 Event Rich Mironov delivered a provocative, insightful and entertaining discussion on the “true” meaning of the product management role at SVPMA’s August 6th, 2014 event. Rich boldly stated, “The challenge…
Read more

Better Strategic Product And Business Decisions For Complex Global Markets

Better Strategic Product And Business Decisions For Complex Global Markets with Liesl Leary, Director of Marketing at SDL by Lisa Rathjens  July 2014 Event When product managers think about bringing their products to global audiences, translation of the product content is of first importance.  This is an expensive endeavor, but generally well understood and straightforward. …
Read more

Charting A Career Path To Your Dream Product Management Job

“Charting A Career Path To Your Dream Product Management Job” with Muffi Ghadiali, VP Product Management, OUYA Inc., Advisor and Lecturer at Stanford CSP. By Kishore Elimineti January 2014 Event Muffi started off talking about three important perspectives that every Product Manager should know to build a successful career in Product Management. WHO IS A…
Read more

A photo of a stack of random calendar pages

Meeting Archives 2013

Meeting Archives 2013 Please click on the link below to see the meetings for that year. 2021 | 20202019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 DecemberCareer…
Read more

Building Great Products the Lean Startup Way

Building Great Products the Lean Startup Way with Dan Olsen, Interim VP Product Management, Product Management Consultant, Olsen Solutions by Tejaswini Ravindra November 2013 Event Dan Olsen did a very informative presentation on how to apply Lean Startup principles and cover best practices in understanding customer needs, prioritization, UX design, user testing, and analytics that can…
Read more