Category Product Management

Steve Blank’s Customer Development Manifesto

If you haven’t been reading Steve Blank’s Blog you are missing out on some of the best entrepreneurial gold around and his recent series of posts on the Customer Development Manifesto are a great place to start

One Week Until Product Camp Austin Summer 2009

Brainmates Post: Passing On Your Product Knowledge

One challenge that I’ve had over the years has been passing and receiving product knowledge. It isn’t uncommon to be handed a set of requirements and the complementary good luck smile. The expectation is that you can somehow reverse engineer the business case.  While there are a number of great tools and processes out there [...]

Sometimes it’s important to focus on the ‘What’ not ‘How’

In product development you can generally find a number of ways to solve a problem but the right solution depends on successfully defining the problem and hopefully not deriving it from a solution. In web systems development its especially easy to have our armchair ‘experts’ help define solutions before trying to define the problem.
We use [...]

Great Quote from Steve Blank

Great quote from Steve Blank “Startups were not just smaller versions of a large company, they were about invention, innovation and iteration – of business model, product, customers and on and on. Startups were doing discovery of the problem and solution in real-time.”
Make it the present tense and that’s what we do daily.

Video: What Jeff Bezos Knows

Product Camp Austin: Summer 2009

Once again it is time for Product Camp Austin and if you haven’t been, you’ve been missing out. A fantastic mix of product folks from a variety of different backgrounds under one roof. No matter who you are there are great people to meet and things to learn.
Here is the info:
ProductCamp Austin is a free, [...]

NextScreen Labs Coming Soon

NextScreen Labs, a new agile product shop will be making its appearance in the next few weeks.  Here is the NextScreen Labs logo as designed by good old MagazineDesign.

50 Great Examples of Data Visualization

Here are 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization HERE

News and Links of the Week

5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self
10 Books To Make You A Better Product Manager
Berkun Top ten reasons managers become great
The Unintended Consequences of Startups
Why Iteration is a Powerful Way to Build a Startup
Calculating Customer Lifetime Value – the Quick and Dirty Method