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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower SaaS

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. Do you anticipate scale issues presently or in the future? You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower SaaS

But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! Hiring a hands-on lead developer might seem like the right move for an early stage startup. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product. Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap?

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Scaling 6 Products to $100M+ ARR Each: Samsara’s CPO Kiren Sekar on Multi-Product Growth

SaaStr

By tracking and targeting diverse industries from day one (even pre-revenue), they discovered that solutions developed for one vertical would spark demand in seemingly unrelated industries. This cross-pollination effect accelerated product development in unexpected ways.

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What Really Works When Hiring VPs and Executive Teams with HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

They had to present their business to me and show me their website. While there’s no perfect formula, focusing on internal talent development, ensuring deep product knowledge, and being highly selective with external hires can significantly improve your success rate. I think that helped a lot.”

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

The presentation will be packed full of real-world examples of great inclusive design (covering household products and digital services), alongside a few more detailed case studies explaining how inclusive design can be embedded successfully in the design process. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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The 250,000 Customer Club: How HubSpot and Monday.com Both Created SMB+ Empires

SaaStr

True Platform Flexibility : Rather than pre-built solutions, Monday.com offers building blocks that organizations can configure for any workflow, from marketing campaigns to software development and HR processes.

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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

SaaStr

Market Selection: Tackle Problems with High Barriers to Entry The financial services industry presents massive barriers to entry most successful banks are centenarians, with some like Ax being over 160 years old. But this challenge also presents opportunity. “Listen to the problems, not the solutions,” Atiyah advises.

CTO Hire 202
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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

This presentation unveils a comprehensive 7-step framework designed to navigate the complexities of developing, launching, and scaling Generative AI products. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

During this presentation, attendees will hear case studies, examples, and best practices gleaned from Jim's 25 years of using the Product Discovery Cycle. Developing multiple solutions to address your customers' major pain points. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. Distributed tracing was developed at organizations like Google and Twitter to address these problems and has also come a long way in the decade since then.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association. We will focus on synthesis of the needs we discover, communication and alignment tools, and how we operationalize addressing those needs.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product. The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information.

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Roadmap Personas: The Best Way to Set Expectations for Teams, Clients, and Leadership

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Join Johanna Rothman as she discusses developing persona-specific roadmaps and the reasons why sometimes less is more. To address this, consider roadmaps as products and establish personas for each viewer. Then, you can decide which information to give to each persona.