Tag: Design

Software Monetization for the Now! Economy

August Event Review: “Software Monetization for the Now! Economy” with Austin Chiu, VP Sales and Marketing, Gemalto By Geoff Anderson   Trends and Dynamics Since the year 2000, fully 50% of the Fortune 500 companies have dropped off the Fortune listings.  Furthermore, the S&P 500 firms currently have an average tenure of just 17 years (whereas…
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Are We There Yet? – A Business Simulation to Learn How Cross-Functional Teams Can Contribute to Improved Product Performance

July Event Review: “Are We There Yet?” – A Business Simulation to Learn How Cross-Functional Teams Can Contribute to Improved Product Performance” with Steven Haines, founder of Sequent Learning Networks By Tej Ravindra July 2016 Event July’s SVPMA topic was a fresh look at how the role of the product manager is to drive the thinking of…
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Landing The First Customer And Beyond: Reflections And Recommendations

April Event Review: “Landing The First Customer And Beyond: Reflections And Recommendations” By Geoff Anderson April 2016 Event Moderator: Alex Cowan: Entrepreneur, Consultant, Adjunct Professor, Darden School of Business The Panel: Ciara Peter: Head of Product, BetterWorks Debashish Sinha: CEO, Zen Nut Laura Klein: Entrepreneur and author of UX for Lean Startups and Build Better…
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A Playbook For Achieving Product-Market Fit

March Event Review: “A Playbook For Achieving Product-Market Fit” with Dan Olsen By Rohan Balwani March 2016 Event Dan Olsen, product management consultant and author of The Lean Product Playbook, presented a step by step guide to pivoting and refining your product until you achieve product-market fit.

Positioning Products As A Mission Statement

February Event Review: “Positioning Products As A Mission Statement” with Alan Wortman By Sol Solorzano February 2016 Event Alan Wortman, Product Management Director at Logitech and Marketing Instructor at UC Berkeley Extension, was our speaker for the February 2016 meeting.  His presentation proposed the use of product mission statements to describe products and their purpose…
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“Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” with Nir Eyal

January Event Review: “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” with Nir Eyal By Rohan Balwani Dubbed by the M.I.T. Technology Review as “The Prophet of Habit Forming Technology,” Nir Eyal spoke at the January 13th meeting.  He presented his ideas about the psychology behind habit forming technology and gave a 30,000 foot view of the…
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Meeting Archives 2015

Meeting Archives 2015 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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Annual Job Fair

October 2015Job Fair(No slides or Event Summary Available)#Career #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Project_Mgmt #Marketing #Development #Design

SVPMA Recruiter Panel

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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When Sharks Attack! – How Data Saves Product Managers From Becoming Shark Bait

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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