The report is wrong. This was the last thing I wanted to hear. It was March or April of 2013. We had launched Explore at AfterCollege a couple of months […]
How to Cultivate Curiosity and Build Better Products
Imagine you are sitting in a meeting. You are in the middle of a heated debate with your head of sales. A customer is adamant they need a feature in […]
How to Develop Product Expertise
How do you evaluate how someone will contribute to a product team? How do you develop your own skills to ensure that you are contributing the most to your product […]
The Challenges of Releasing Early and Often
Have you ever rolled out a major product change while one of your sales reps was demo’ing your product to a prospect? I have. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t a […]
Drop Feature-Based Product Roadmaps
When I work on a product, I think about it all day long. I obsess over it. I love exploring the long view. What will this product look like next […]
You Already Know To Begin With The End In Mind. But Do You?
“It sounds like you need to define what success looks like.” This was such a simple statement. And yet, it had a profound impact on me. I was in my […]
Practice Defining Your MVP
Suppose you are building eVite. Or Facebook Events. Or whatever your favorite event site is. And you need to define your MVP. How would you think about it? Some of […]
How You Build Matters. Finding Your MVP.
The MVP. The minimum viable product. The most misunderstood concept in the world of Lean startups. And one of the most critical to get right. Why Time To Build Doesn’t […]
