Mike Mayo, Rackspace iOS Developer

Join us to hear what Mike Mayo has to say about being a renegade, managing product, product teams, and what developers want & need from product managers.

How Do You Define Product Management? What does it mean to be a product manager?

These questions are the impetus for building a community of product professionals! Each meeting we invite a speaker to share their perspective on a particular aspect of managing products. It doesn't matter what your title, training or orientation is - in a startup, its all about the product... shouldn't it always be about the product no matter the size of the company? And what does it mean to be all about the product...?

From Build It Like A Startup: Lean Product Innovation (http://www.amazon.com/Build-Like-Startup-Innovation-ebook/dp/B0083JDXAE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1339613987&sr=1-1&keywords=build+it+like+a+startup) by

Greg Gehrich (http://www.greg-gehrich.com/), Startup Product Talks member (https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Product-Talks/members/14048843/):

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"Teams organized around product are more efficient than teams organized around function"

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Suggested Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00 Arrive, Sign in: Pizza & Beers

---------Use White Board to Post Topics, Questions, Jobs & Seekers

7:00 - 7:15 Welcome from Nick & Cindy

Report from attendees at Silicon Valley Code Camp #7 http://bit.ly/QOBf4u

7:15 - 7:30 Un-conference format: vote on white board suggestions

7:30 - 8:30 Mike Mayo, Rackspace iOS Developer, Software Engineer, iOS Hacker, Well iPhone app: http://well.io (http://well.io/)

8:30 - 9:00 Open Discussion

9:00 - 9:15 1 minute pitches: positions available/who is seeking

---------Use form to share http://bit.ly/MBrLs4

9:15 - end Networking

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Mike Mayo (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-mayo/1/124/23)

What Mike says about himself, "I'm currently a mobile app developer (iPhone, iPad, Android) with plenty of experience building things for the web. I built the Rackspace Cloud and Cloud Notes iPhone apps, and I build open source software for the cloud. I'm also active in the Bay Area cloud computing community and extremely active on twitter as @greenisus (http://www.twitter.com/greenisus)."

What someone else says about Mike, "For those of you that have the honor of managing technical teams, Michael is one of those rare gems that makes the department and organization shine while making the Herculean tasks seem effortless. Mr. Mayo's passion for technology and imagining possibilities makes him a strong contributing team member on any team."

Thanks to our location & beer host

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and our Pizza Sponsor

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Article from CBSNews.com: 10 most valuable corporate jobs (http://cbsn.ws/PGPGpF)

Product Manager is number 4 out of the top 10 most valuable corporate jobs - ahead of Product Development!

"4. Product manager. I know a lot of you think engineers are responsible for inventing great products that beat the competition. They're not. As venture capitalist and former Intel exec Bill Davidow wrote in his seminal book "Marketing High Technology,"

"(Product) Marketing (Management) must invent complete products and drive them to commanding positions in defensible market segments."