Acclerating Results Coaching provides accountability for actionable steps toward your quantifiable goal. Utilizing effective methods to increase productivity, address challenges, blocks and maladaptive behaviors.For entrepreneurs - new and seasoned, validating a new venture;For tech professionals - Transitioning to new industries, positioning yourself into new tech domains;For seasoned professionals seeking new opportunities;For Startups - seeking product/market fit;For Small Businesses - need to enhance online presence and brand recognition;For Parents - overwhelmed with offspring milestones;For Re-entering the job market - developing your personal brand;For professionals seeking their next position and career growth;Everyone seeking a personal tune-up, mentoring, coaching and accountability to stay on track.

Startup Product Academy, LLC is the educational backbone of the Startup Product Movement for Product Excellence by Design. Startup Product produces community, venues and events that increase visibility for the hands-on practitioners, experts and thought leaders that shed light on the knowledge, process, tools, best practices and methodologies for managing products and forwarding professional product management. Currently there are 19 growing communities worldwide that are fueled with regular live broadcasts, webcasts and in person events. Startup Product Academy provides workshops, trainings and a sandbox for immersion into managing products. Participants learn how to surmount challenges at all steps of the product lifecycle process to achieve bankable results. SUPA opens doors, builds bridges, on-boards novice product professionals through product apprenticeship opportunities, showcases experienced product professionals, and forwards product leaders in advancing their careers.Cindy serves as mentor, coach and adviser, fostering individual career growth, forwarding product leaders, product team effectiveness and professional product management organizations.

Product Bootcamp San Francisco is comprised of workshop day, Startup Product Summit, and ProductCamp unconference.The 3 day event is for passionate product people seeking knowledge and networking with current product stars, sharing knowledge, process and tools to forward product excellence, build a cohesive community, raise the visibility and value of product management as an emerging profession and forward the careers of product leaders. It starts with October 10 workshop day for people to get real product chops from understanding the competitive space to building great products the lean startup way. http://startupproduct.com/workshop-day/October 11 is Startup Product Summit SF2 - a full day of product leaders, experts and visionaries sharing what they've learned to forward audience members in standing on their shoulders to propel their products and companies forward. http://startupproduct.com/startup-product-summit/October 12 is the true community unconference: Product Camp San Francisco! Everyone is invited to propose topics and present and everyone is on the team to create value through out the day. http://pcampsf.com

Startup Product Summit events are about questioning what forwards product excellence at every stage of the product lifecycle from inception to build to launch and beyond. Startup Product Events bring everyone on the team together to talk about what makes products great.Regardless of the size or maturity of the product, organization or business, focus on the product is essential. Immediate critical examination of what works at every stage requires the ability to fail quickly and iterate with relevant feedback from users, from the competitive space, from the ecosystem and market forces. Startup Product Events including in person events, such as the Summit and Talks , as well as digital events and trainings, are intended to be an opportunity for everyone who is passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence.

SUPA Product Talks is a monthly meetup of passionate product people coming together to discuss, debate and deliberate on issues such as "How do teams balance both the visionary and executable aspects of building products - beyond customer development?What does it mean to manage products? How do you define product management?Does your title matter in a Startup where everyone shares the responsibility for guaranteeing that customers will love the product and the product generates revenue?How do you get into managing products and the role of product management?"We welcome people from all disciplines: UX designers Founders, funders, CEOs Software developers Product Marketers, Agile Marketers, Growth Hackers Product managers Community managers Content strategists Business Analysts Project managers And anyone who loves to talk and think about products!http://startupproduct.com/meetupsSUPA Product Events including in person events, such as the Summit and Talks, as well as digital events and trainings, are intended to be an opportunity for everyone who is passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence.Contact me to speak, demo your product, workshop your dilemma, and sponsor monthly in- person events.Join the movement for product excellence!

TRANSFORMING IDEAS INTO PRODUCTSThe Product Summit brings together product professionals, developers, designers, managers and marketers with entrepreneurs, makers, inventors, SMBs to share and learn the best practices of building and managing their products across all industries.Mastering the future of product excellence begins with people, knowledge, process and tools. Interact with others who design, develop, manage and market products to gain insights and actions to implement immediately. The movement for product excellence breaks down silos to enable vibrant learning organizations and product communities that forward product excellence.The Product Summit Oakland is the 4th event in the series now coming to the East Bay to support Oakland’s entrepreneurship, startup and business culture. The theme is "Transforming Ideas to Products" and focuses on jump starting, managing and executing the process for building and developing excellent products of all kinds. It showcases the unique variety of businesses, leaders and practitioners from Oakland who will share their experiences across various phases of creating excellent products.

The Product Summit SF is the third annual conference that has come out of a growing community and regular broadcast, grounded in the discipline of product management and product team collaboration. The intention of the conference is to bring together a diverse audience of people passionate about product excellence from various professional backgrounds and orientations, expose them to different perspectives, and provide tools and new ways of thinking that they might implement immediately to expand their perspective on what is required to bring products from inception through an entire life cycle, widen their view on the full gamut of products, product development and product professional options required to achieve excellent product results.The focus of this year’s summit is “The Future of Product, Productivity and Product Management” It will take place over 4 days beginning on Thursday, November 20, 2014 launching the new General Assembly San Francisco headquarters at 225 Bush Street in San Francisco.The first day consists of lightning talks and panel discussions with experts, visionaries and practitioners culminating in the presentation of the US Mobile & App Design awards.Day 2 is an opportunity to dive deeper into subject matter with expert practitioners during 2 hour workshops.Day 3 is a hands on Design Thinking Innovation workshop enabling teams to work together to bring an idea to fruition and present it at the end of the dayDay 4 is the ultimate unconference, ProductCamp SF where everyone shares their expertise, perspectives, suggests topics and participates in creating value. There are ample opportunities for showcased speakers, sponsors, product demos, product launches and hiring opportunities. There is no other event of this nature specifically aimed at product professionals and those interested in product careers across industry, vertical and size organization.November 20-23, 2014 San Franciscohttp://productsummit.org

Startup Product OPEN welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, get feedback, next steps, and find out what it really takes to produce products that contribute to the quality of life on the planet. Every urban center seeking to spark interest in startups, new businesses and innovation deserves a vibrant community of inspired product people to create innovative solutions, increase participation in technology products and services beyond silos and barriers, open doors for students and diversity of all kinds, raise awareness and celebrate the great people, products and opportunities currently available behind closed doors. Makers, hackers, shakers, SMBs, entrepreneurs exist in all areas in front of their devices and tools. Startup Product OPEN blows open the doors for everyone to contribute, question, and interact with each others’ ideas, prototypes, products, problems and process using Open Space Technology. Startup Product OPEN lights a fire to ignite a vibrant community of innovators, hackers, entrepreneurs and passionate product people to hone their skills for creating and managing products from inception to market/product fit to scaling or iteration.

The "Global Product Management Talk" was initially conceived by Cindy F. Solomon as a virtual forum where people who are passionate about product excellence yet situated globally could interact in real time with thought leaders. The Global Product Management Talk introduced the Socratic Twitter Chat format and continues to raise the bar on what is possible to accomplish in a real time, open platform event by encouraging participants to expand their knowledge base with each event, utilize new products in real time as we introduce and beta test various products for participating, encourage participants to showcase their knowledge and share resources, and crowdsource educational content for product people to stay apprised of new developments, thinkers, and events in the practice of managing products from inception to market and innovation. What started as the weekly #ProdMgmtTalk Twitter Chat with speakers conversing on Skype, morphed into the popular broadcast where the action takes place in the live speaker discussion with host, Cindy F. Solomon, shout outs to twitter participants, and opportunity for listeners to call in to speak directly with host and showcased speaker. Participants are welcome to listen live at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/prodmgmttalk, call in to talk on the show (323) 927-2957 and to participate on Twitter by following @ProdMgmtTalk and tweeting using the hashtag #ProdMgmtTalk.Listen on iTunes http://bit.ly/silH98Android App http://bit.ly/tEeWFxRSS http://bit.ly/IyCnJDTwitter @ProdMgmtTalkWe're a top 10 business podcast & featured host on BlogTalkRadio network with >20,000 listens per week! Imagine your brand engaged with our audience for over 50 minutes on their personal devices! Sponsor: http://bit.ly/gF0Tt3Recorded live by 6 time Emmy winner BZLewis http://www.studio132.comMusic courtesy http://www.BlameSally.com Performing May 11th, 2013 SF Great American Music Hall Get on the speaker schedule! http://bit.ly/f4xAIW

The popular AIPMM Webinar Series takes place on Fridays 9 AM PT/ 12 Noon ETFor more information about upcoming speakers and registration: http://aipmm.com/aipmm_webinars/The focus of the AIPMM Webinar Series is to provide a mini lesson, an introduction to, overview of or insights into the subject matter provided by thought leaders who cover topics relevant to the discipline of managing products of all kinds across all industries.

• Drove creation of customer driven web functionality for geographically disparate executive team with 74 international locations. • Established process for effective communications processes and initiated new projects through development life cycle.• Developed ecommerce strategy, identified price points and increased online revenue by 300%.

Launched new product category in cloud computer space.

Consultancy providing integrated product management and product marketing strategy for startups

• Co-authored the Wishner-Solomon Proposal “hailed as a model for other cities to follow” at 2005 EMF conference (electromagnetic fields)• Worked within the local political system and school board bureaucracy • Drove awareness campaign utilizing integrated online and offline media garnering television and newspaper coverage.

• Re-positioned and launched Where2Net as a multi-channel solution provider of mobile applications infrastructure software enabling wireless, voice enabled and touch activated access for cross-channel retailers, small business and enterprise. • Developed business and strategic marketing plans, created brand image encompassing positioning, mission, logo, online, wireless, and voice-enabled websites.• Worked cross-functionally with engineers, graphic artists, sales and executives to develop product content, business presentation, and sales training including data sheets, white papers, product briefs, PR.• Provided market direction for product evolution and priorities, identified competitive space, strategic partners and target customers. Created pricing models for maximizing financial return based on market research.

• Drove the integrated product marketing strategy, programs and partner implementation of desktop Website authoring software and browser based Website builder software applications targeted at enterprise, small business and consumer markets. • Researched competitive space, wrote MRDs and managed cross-functional teams to produce user interface and develop guidelines to guarantee the ease of use and seamless interactive experience across all product features, from out-of-the-box impression to website, desktop software, online aspect, and follow-up customer service. • Produced the Online resource guide integrated with the desktop web authoring software, collaborated with third party vendors and outside agencies and managed customized strategic partner environment requirements and resulting customized versions.• Championed customer success stories for showcasing on external website.

Start-up incubated by Vadem, ltd.• Developed business plan for pre-IPO Internet portal and service for mobile device users defining product, service, online presence, brand creation and revenue generating focus. • Identified target audience with integrated marketing strategies, launch plan, PR strategy, user acquisition and retention program, online affiliate participation, advertising plans and content development goals to create an online service and portal for mobile device users. • Directed corporate identity creation, logo development, graphical user interface, end user experience and product prototype conception, website architecture.• Managed external agencies and product road maps.

• Provided consulting for e-commerce and multi-channel integrated marketing presence and programs, as well as wireless website design. • Developed relationships with ISPs to host sites; registered developer for major ISPs. • Provided consulting to small businesses to incorporate their business mission into their web presence. • Managed customized web development project, designed layout and wrote content for the site, coded the HTML. • Marketed web sites to targeted online audiences, provided online advertising and search engine optimization (SEO). • Developed and taught class "Dispelling the Myths of Marketing on the Internet." • Chairperson for the San Jose Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce (now the Silicon Valley Chamber) Downtown Group Business Referral Network. • Wrote series for Women's Connection Magazine entitled, The Low Down on High Tech and Web Connection

• Software engineering, programming and web development services. • Developed business process for enabling & capturing seamless payment transaction guaranteeing completion of transaction at customer's convenience regardless of online status.• Products included development of web crawler, code sniffer, and site frame chronology• Clients included Visa, Hewlett Packard, FileMaker, AT&T, Vadem, NetObjects, OnFlow.

• Director of corporate website for maker of database software, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, Inc.; transformed reference legacy Website into a Marketing Portal promoting the universe of FileMaker products, services, community and resources available.• Managed in-house web professionals, consultants and agencies to support creation and maintenance of a 5000 page external website. Collaborated with Chiat Day to develop print advertising to drive traffic to the website.• Developed online product registration ability and worked cross-functionally to integrate overlapping sources of customer data. Evaluated e-commerce opportunities, technologies and trends.• Worked with online re-sellers and distribution channels to support e-commerce initiatives. Developed strategic alliances with content providers. Created and promoted ability to capture case studies and promote customer success stories online.