It’s always entertaining to see how people respond to this question. This appears on attendee badges and is usually an entertaining way to get conversations going. Not everyone realizes we’re serious.
We are. This can have consequences…
We’re still giggling about this @Grinblo #BoS2017 https://t.co/zGCkJjJnvm
— Mark Littlewood (@MarkLittlewood) June 19, 2017
Here’s the output of this year’s BoS USA ‘Talk to Me About’. There’s some interesting conversation starters!
- Never knowing when to stop
- Going from Enterprise to SaaS
- Too many things
- Give and take
- You can ask anything
- Up selling strategies
- Crossfit
- Growth @ Wildbit
- Raspberry Pi
- Running, Craft beer
- CEO stuff I need to know
- President, Co-Founder
- Facilitator of Productivity
- Building the world’s most popular cad/cam system
- Inspire innovative, fun, (profitable) growth.
- Apps & Photography
- My worst mistake
- Coaching
- Happiness Index
- “Crushing it”
- Cats
- UI/UXMake a ruckus
- USC Trojan Football
- Running Remote Teams
- quality
- DCIM & IoT
- TBD
- Marcin Hudyma
- Helping people stay sane
- Kauai
- Cricket
- Empire Building
- Employee Advocacy & Engagement
- 1D-2D-3D fluid dynamics modeling
- Email Campaigns for SaaS Companies
- knowledge of death related matters
- Make Engaging Videos in 5 Minutes
- Make Engaging Videos in 3 Minutes
- Building Companies
- Product, Experimentation, Shipping, Remote working
- Web Application Security
- Delivery (value, teams)
- How to CEO?
- I keep things moving.
- TBD
- GM
- Business Development
- I love to make the world better place to live
- Founder @ Wildbit
- Effectively building software that provides Customer Value.
- Scaling
- Relentless Forward Progress
- Strategery
- Team culture and happiness
- Business of Software
- teamwork.com
- Ethical development of keen web-apps
- How ideas work
- Accounting for SaaS
- I can’t tell you who to sock it to
- Creating valuable and usable experiences
- Building Teams & Product
- Product Marketing
- Maximizer
- HR Solutions for small and midsize businesses
- Product Development
- Sales
- Saasler – Integrations made easy
- Marketing
- Code!
- UI! UX!
- No More Churn!Thought Leadership, and you?
- Product Management
- The Bridge Between Machine Learning and Value Creation
- Scaling for growth
- building companies
- Relaunching product roadmaps
- Company Culture
- Productivity Software
- Selling enterprise software; working with the federal government; keeping your sanity while selling software to the federal government.
- CMS, marketing, agile
- CMS, marketing, product management
- Customer support
- The next big thing
- Scaling the Development Organization
- How valuable BOS has been to us
- Scaling
- IT Consulting
- Java Code geek meets Entrepreneur
- Opening European office
- Getting people to buy stuff
- B2B SaaS Business
- Copy + Comedy!
- Scaling Everything!
- sustainably growing a development organization
- Marketing and starting up a business
- US Expansion
- AI/ML
- BI
- Dealing with loneliness as a CEO
- Anything
- Online scheduling
- Transitioning from Engineering to Operations
- Business Transitions
- Customer Success
- Manage complex SW development and implementation
- Golf…or ideas for our software magazine!
- music software/instruments
- fast cars and music
- The dignity of risk
- Tom Waits
- Database DevOps
- Learning
- SaaS copywriting
- Powering changemakers
- Focussing: value to clients
- Business Transformation
- Going from early to growth stage
- AHA moments
- New product ideas!
- Building rock star teams
- the pursuit of excellence
- Multiplatform SW Development
- Learn and solve
- Mechanic of all things DevOps
- Selling to developers
- the weather
- technology
- technology, AI, value-add partnership opportunities
- Customer Platforms
- music
- the Boston Product Management Association
- Doing ALL the things!
- Scaling challenges
- Anything from software development to product management to marketing (or 18th century literature)
- FTT (Follow The Talent)
- storytelling
- Gin and product management. Not always at the same time!
- Cloud, DevOps, Crypto
- Anything
- Cycling!
- infosec, open source, pens & apophenia
- Software process.
- Employee Advocacy (or Tinkerbell)
- Sales
- Ethical Growth Hacking
- Product Management!
- We do ERP Software.
- We do ERP Software.
- XForms
- judging when to customize and when not to customize
- Building great software for geoscientists.
- Digital payments and customer experiences that drive sales for your software.
- Product Development
- Moving from a very small to a very large company
- Optimal Outcomes
- your favourite food in Boston
- software development
- Optimizing People
- Understanding People
- Version One Labs
- Enterprise software that doesn’t suck!
- Miscellaneous
- Staying Positive
- Bootstrapping
- Building Software and Teams
- UXGlitch!
- Managing and Pricing Custom Development
- x
- IoT & SaaS
- staying healthy, developing great habits and winning
- Email Followups
- people/work/tech
- JavaScript
- Product Engineering
- eCommerce
- healthcare
- Customer success, marketing, starting a sales team
- Our software launch
- Copywriting, Comedy, and Chinese Food
- API Support
- Growth
- young people and skills
- Mobile & Web Development
- Ethical Tech
- The book you want to write…
- Digital Video Business
- Life after acquisition
- Innovation and Delivery Balance
- Your database needs DevOps too!
- DevOps & Hacking w/Python
- Internal Innovation
- Marketing Geek
- Manufacturing software
- Running A Design Sprint
- what’s on your mind
- Warehouses and Factories
- WEB IOS ANDROID DEVELOPMENT By ONIX
- Streamlining commerce
- Streamlining commerce
- Marketing all the things!
- Sales!
- Concept cars
- Lead by Example
- Business Software Needs!
- Mobile & Web Development
- Sales & MarketingStrategy + Biz
- Why Adwords waste your money
- Sales!
- I love XML
- Software for Education
- Teamwork
- Design Origami
- Data, Infrastructure & Beer
- Is freemium wise?
- Product Engineering
- Product Pricing
- New software product creation (concept to business case)
- Corporate Innovation and generating buy-in in a non-product culture
- Pricing
- product management in a hybrid service/product business
- charting career paths for great engineers
- Make Engaging Videos in 5 Minutes
- iOS
- International Business
- Building a Consumer Business
- building scalable software and motivated teams
- Manufacturing software.
- Community and Support!
- Design Origami
- Teaching
- Anything
- SME B2B (Especially S)
- Cognitive
- Strategy, Product Management, SFDC, AWS, Roadmaps
- Building Effective Teams & Organizations
- Microwaves
- Shoes
- Pool Shark
- Product Strategy
- Little League Coach
- Football
- Tom Cruise look-alike
- Camping
- try and buy software
- Mentoring Youth In Technology
- Community
- Agile
- Kaizen
- Constructing world-class engineering software
- Connecting Data and Applications
- SaaS
- Building Product Development Teams
- Client Success
- Product Engineering
- TBD
- Indonesia
- Being a good board member
- Customer insight
- Vertical vs Horizontal Growth and Pricing
- Business of Software
- Helping people build great software companies.
- Remote Working
- Beer | Cycling
- Product Enthusiast
- Online travel, late-stage bootstrapping, international expansion, open data. Online omnivore
- Don’t compare yourself to others
BTW, if you have read this far, you should also check this out. Twice in one day.
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