Resources

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Two local product-focused organizations are:

SVPMA: the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. Smart local group with camaraderie, monthly speakers, newsletter, and great networking for local PMs.
UC Berkeley Product Management Program, an intensive five-day certificate program that draws on the Haas School faculty as well as PM practitioners (like me).

Other Kinds of Help

Humility and good friendships start by noticing that other people are great at things you’re not. Here are a few:

Prof. Hank Chesbrough, Haas School of Business: Thought leader in Open Innovation, internal VC, industrial research, IP and spin-offs. 510-643-2067
Barbara Coll, WebMama.com, Inc. : Pioneer in online marketing and search engine optimization, in-demand speaker. 415-203-7112.
Andrea Corney, Acorn Consulting: Organizational development, getting executive “traction” on tough issues, team building. Writes Management Shorts 650-329-8923.

John Sebes, Information Security Consulting : Information security, encryption, and privacy technologist/scientist. Most recently CTO at SolidCore. 415-203-8020.

David Strom: A veteran technology writer, founder of Network Computing, and thought leader whose Web Informant newsletter has covered “real world” computing issues since 1995.

Val Swisher, Oak Hill Corporation : Technical pubs, white papers, software documentation, training and marketing writing for technology companies. 408-395-8178.

Dave Taber, Taber Consulting and also CEO of SalesLogistix. A brilliant mentor and thinker, stepping in with officer-level strategic sales and marketing leadership for growing companies. 650-326-2626.

Bert Vermeulen, Corp21 : Business/marketing advice to entrepreneur CEOs, especially around international channels and operations for manufacturing technology.

John Vollbrecht: Deep security protocol thinker. Co-authored RADIUS and EAP (802.1x) RFCs and other fundamental standards. 734-395-7890.
Tracy Weatherby: CEO of Active Ingredient, which specializes in rigorous gathering of actual consumer and user requirements, a key ingredient to good product strategies and market success.

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