MMC Roundtable | Product Strategy - Elisabeth Ling
MMC Ventures invites you to a Product Strategy roundtable with expert, Elisabeth Ling.
This roundtable will facilitate a discussion among founders, CEOs, and product and technology leaders. It will address the different challenges related to commerciality and product, and explore solutions for progress.
Is your Product Strategy commercial enough?
In a typical software venture, R&D costs (including salaries, tools, and infrastructure) constitute a significant portion of the P&L and monthly burn.
To ensure that Product efforts align effectively with commercial goals, this roundtable explores a lean approach to Product Discovery. From idea inception to General Availability, addressing delays in Product Discovery can enhance commercial returns, improve release reliability, and provide clarity on how R&D drives commercial growth.
Topics:
How often do you review total R&D cost?
Do you talk to your teams, Product and Tech, about these costs? If not, what’s the benefit of explaining these?
Should Product and Technology teams jointly own commercial goals in revenue or terms?
How do you know that you are making the right trade-offs?
Who decides what and when in the product development process?
Are you asking the right product questions at the right time?
About Elisabeth:
Elisabeth Ling is a Strategic Product Advisor focused on startups and scale-ups. She advises CEOs, CPOs and CTOs on how to accelerate the commercial results from their R&D investments. She has steered product strategies and commercial growth across a wide range of ventures from global companies to start-ups. She has had an impressive career to date, serving as Head of Product at Ebay and Paypal, as well as Managing Director at RELX (FTSE 11). Elisabeth has actively supported over 35 ventures as an angel investor, predominantly in the B2B space. Elisabeth also contributes her strategic insights as a non-executive director at esure, a leading British car insurance company.