Tag: Startups

Five Reasons Why Your Product is Not Ready for AI… And How To Get There with Ryan Withop, Director of Analytics & Growth at RingCentral

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…
Read more

Aligning the Stars: How to Create a Product Roadmap that Aligns with a Startup’s Funding Cycles with Igino Cafiero, CEO, Bear Flag Robotics

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…
Read more

Why Should We Care? Connecting Product Development to Corporate Strategy with Jessica Sweeney

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…
Read more

A photo of a stack of random calendar pages

Meeting Archives 2020

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…
Read more

Intellectual Property Issues in the Research, Development, and Sales of Products

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…
Read more

Be The Go-To: How to Own Your Competitive Market, Charge More, and Have Customers Love You For It

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,…
Read more

A photograph of a 1-on-1 meeting

Meet the Career Experts: Managing Your Career in the Age of COVID

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…
Read more

A photograph of Kirsten Berman

The Evolution of the Behavioral Product Manager

Product managers often rely on qualitative research (surveys) to dictate their product development processes, but behavioral science demonstrates that the customer’s word is often unreliable due to cognitive biases at play. The evolving world of product design & development requires that product leaders incorporate the science of human behavior in a more rigorous way than…
Read more

A photograph of Kat Hines

Universal Design: Making Great Products for Everyone

Accessibility is usually one of the last items on a project plan checklist and can result in some unexciting and often troublesome changes. But what if you could include it at the beginning and end up with an even better product for every customer? Universal Design focuses on designing for the most customers possible but in…
Read more

A photograph of Shreyas Doshi

PM Mythbusting: The 7 Myths That Stymie PM Impact (and Careers)

“Product mistakes are good and should be celebrated.”  “You must secure quick wins in your first 90 days as a leader.”  “A surefire path to higher compensation is to secure a bigger title at your next job.”  In this talk, Shreyas will share why these commonly-held beliefs (and other similar ones) are not only false…
Read more