You know you’re a Products Geek, when you find a show like Pitchmen appealing. Pitchmen, on the Discovery Channel, is a behind the scenes docudrama about infomerical marketers and how [ … ]
Category: Entrepreneurship
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 [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto – Oct 4, 2009
In just about 3 weeks, we’ll be hosting the 2nd ProductCamp in Toronto. Last year, at the first event, over 100 people came out to participate in a day of [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Upcoming ProductCamps
ProductCamp New York was last weekend and it appears to have been quite successful. Alan attended and wrote up this post about it. If you missed the New York session [ … ]
Go to school, get an education, create a job!
By Saeed Khan As my kids are getting older – my eldest is now entering high school – I’m turning into one of those dads who tries to impart wordly [ … ]
The value of simplicity
We have 3 different types of food blenders in our house. They are pictured below. I’ve tried to show them roughly to scale with one another. The first is a [ … ]
Tom Grant Kicks Some SaaS
Forrester’s Tom Grant has written 2 excellent pieces rebutting some rather uninformed blog posts and comments made by Rick Chapman over at SaaSUniversity.com. Many people, myself included, left comments directly [ … ]