Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.—Winston Churchill, British prime minister Every marketing person will tell you that customer interviews provide deep insights [ … ]
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The Origins of Product Management (part 2)
NOTE: Part 1 can be found here. The high technology industry, and in particular, the software industry is much younger than the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. And the role of [ … ]
Canada’s Innovation Gap (part 2)
In part 1, I discussed the findings described in an article entitled Canada’s Innovation Gap, which was published in the Globe and Mail earlier this year. In short, it indicated [ … ]
Canada’s Innovation Gap (part 1)
While this post is targeted at the innovation, funding and technology issues in Canada, it may apply to other geographies as well, particularly if you don’t live/work in technology hot [ … ]
Tr.im should have figured out their revenue model first!
Not to sound like a broken record, but here’s a great example of what I was talking about in my recent post entitled “5 benefits in thinking about revenue models [ … ]
5 benefits in thinking about revenue models right from the start
There are a number of Web sites and applications — two of the most well known examples being Twitter and Facebook — that offer very good, free services. And over [ … ]
What was Twitter’s Biz Stone smoking?
A couple of months ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone appeared on The Colbert Report. Watch the interview below and then continue reading the blog post. Pay close attention during the [ … ]
Product Management by Committee? – pt. 2
By Saeed Khan There were some very interesting responses to my post “Product Management by Committee?”. I also posted a question in the LinkedIn Internet Product Management Group [LinkedIn login [ … ]
What can we learn from Cassatt’s demise?
There’s an interview with former BEA co-founder Bill Coleman in Forbes about the last days of his company Cassatt. Bill Coleman is now the founder and CEO of Cassatt Corporation, [ … ]
Ideas for Twitter’s Revenue Model – pt. 2
In part 1, I described some of the responses received from a survey I ran a couple of weeks ago asking readers for ideas on how Twitter could generate revenue. [ … ]