This is Why Your Product Has No UsersWe have an idea. We get excited about it and build a product or hire others to do so. We ship it to the world, and then…dead silence from…Jan 4, 2023Jan 4, 2023
Why Judging Product Managers Is HardIt’s easy to believe that product managers with long tenures at established software companies like Meta, Google, Netflix, and Amazon are…Sep 14, 20221Sep 14, 20221
Published inStartup StashProduct Help is The Underserved NeedStartups and product innovation teams at corporations can contract with firms to provide almost any style of labor imaginable: QA, design…Aug 29, 2022Aug 29, 2022
Growth is stalled…is Sales or Product the problem?When revenue or customer growth is less than stellar, I frequently get asked who’s responsible: the sales team or the product team. The…Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022
Choosing What to Build Takes Opposing, Extreme MindsetsTwo schools of thought dominate how startup founders and product leaders decide what to build: 1) wait for a stroke of genius (I’ll call…Apr 29, 2022Apr 29, 2022
What To Do When You Hear About New CompetitionAs a Founder and early employee of startups, I cringe whenever someone hears what I’m working on and responds with any of the following:Feb 8, 2022Feb 8, 2022
How California and mePrism Can Help You Claim Your DataAt mePrism, our job is to help you get back in control of the digital data you create through your actions on major platforms such as…Nov 17, 2021Nov 17, 2021
What’s Wrong with Free Products in Exchange for Your Data?Most consumers now understand that free services like Google search, the Chrome browser, Facebook, and Gmail come with a hidden cost in the…Nov 10, 2021Nov 10, 2021
Marketing Isn’t For EveryoneSimple but powerful post today, and the bottomline is that marketing isn’t for every business. Increasingly I find that marketing is…Mar 13, 20211Mar 13, 20211
The Startup Product DiagnosticOne of the most frequent questions I receive as a product-focused startup builder and advisor is something to the effect of “if you were…Feb 20, 2021Feb 20, 2021
