Summary Every startup wants to be the next Salesforce, zScaler, or Slack, the creators and dominant forces in their categories. Beyond accelerating enterprise value growth, category leadership can create a market magic that thrills customers, investors, and employees and also drives competitors crazy with envy. However, many CEOs and product leaders consider category leadership difficult,…
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Great products fail if the marketing team does not understand the product and does not market the product to target customers. A product-led CMO is the Chief Storyteller in the company and manages the product narrative. However, it is not always clear what the CMO needs from Product Management for the product to be successful.…
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As product professionals, we spend a lot of time outlining, refining, and building the product vision. Product professionals set the direction for the product and sometimes even the company. One visually articulates their thinking into the product roadmaps and communicates with the audience, helping them understand what is possible and why they should care. But…
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Topic Five Reasons Why Your Product is Not Ready for AI… And How To Get There Speaker Ryan Withop, Director of Analytics & Growth, RingCentral Summary If you spend any amount of time reading about high-tech, it seems as if everyone has artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) as their secret sauce. The reality…
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Summary Startups are brutal. For many startups, the most grueling part is fundraising. The consequences of under or overestimating this challenge can be fatal. Teams that don’t account for creating fundable milestones will die, while those that over rotate on one-off demos, risk losing time and burning out their teams. The most skilled founders and…
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Learn to create an outcomes-based roadmap using a bottoms-up approach and a top-down approach with affiliated business metrics. Join us via Zoom for Jessica’s talk to learn how to connect product development to the corporate strategy. When Wednesday, April 13, 2022 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm PST Topic Why Should We Care? Connecting Product Development to…
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Meeting Archives 2020 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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Legal issues related to intellectual property can have positive and negative influences on the successful research, development, and sales of technology products. Awareness of, and planning for, potential negative intellectual property issues can mitigate or avoid risks to the commercial success of new and existing products. Similarly, the development of intellectual property assets can help…
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Are customers failing to see what sets your company or product apart? What is pushing your prices (and margins) down? Healthy prices and profits are a company’s lifeblood, critical for funding current operations and future growth. Yet too many companies or their products look alike. They are then forced to compete on price alone. Instead,…
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Albert Qian’s Slides Sandra Clark’s Slides Tom Brouchoud’s Slides As busy product professionals, we sometimes struggle to focus on career development and manage the growth and progression of our own careers. Career management during periods of high change and uncertainty also presents additional unique challenges. 2020 has certainly presented more change and uncertainty than any…
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