By Rivi Aspler A few months ago, I linked the type of product manager that you want to hire, to the product life cycle stage that your product is at, [ … ]
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The UX responsibilities of a Product Manager – Part 2
by Gary Schroeder In part 1, we discussed the importance of Product/Market Fit and concepts of Problem Validation and Solution Validation. This part covers 5 key UX responsibilities of Product [ … ]
How to increase your chances of getting your product idea funded
By Rivi Aspler There are many product-oriented checklists that one can find over the web. Product groups can easily check their readiness to various types of targets, whether its design, development, [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Go to school, get an education, create a job
By Saeed Khan Back in 2009, as the economic downturn was digging in, I wrote the following piece. People were getting laid off in droves and having to search for [ … ]
7 Lessons Product Managers can Learn from Lean Startup Machine
By Shardul Mehta Recently, I participated in the Lean Startup Machine workshop held in Washington DC. For some time now, I’ve been thinking about how Lean Startup principles can be [ … ]
Walking the Talk – Prabhakar Gopalan and kanban2go
As some of you may know, Prabhakar Gopalan is a contributor on this blog. And while he’s not been as frequent in his contributions this year as he was last [ … ]
Engage customers to keep your business growing
NOTE: The following is a guest post by William King. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. Is your profit margin thinning out? [ … ]
Inspiration, Improvisation and Innovation in Austin
By Saeed Khan This past weekend, I managed to attend Product Camp Austin 8! Thanks to some business I had to attend to earlier in the week in that same [ … ]
The Cost of Making Wrong Decisions
Note: This is a guest post by Fred Engel. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. Being wrong bothers most people. In fact, [ … ]
We are entering the Age of Innovation
By Saeed Khan If I gave you an assignment to hire someone to build a device to get cameras (still and video) into the upper atmosphere (at least 80,000 feet), [ … ]