So you have an awesome idea and you know it’s going to make a lot of money, but for some reason not everybody believes you. Well, first of all, that good since you don’t need everyone on your side. You do however want to make a good impression on potential investors, team members, advisers, etc. [...]

When building a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) the goal is to build something as quickly as possible, release it to the world and get feedback. Then improve and continue building. In this post I will explain how to build a MVP based on “User Stories” rather than “Features” and why it’s faster and better. What [...]

The goal of this post is to help breakdown value creation and value capture. At first glance we can see that there is more than one way we can add value and that not all value added will actually go to the user. . There are 3 fundamental ways to add value to your customers: [...]

My goal in this post is to break down the main activities great Project Managers do and briefly discuss each. This is meant to help organize and break apart the complex world of product management and allow further research into each area (which I plan to write about over time). The goal of a product manager [...]

In this post I hope to quickly break apart the feature prioritization process. My goal is to help make prioritization more of a science and less of an art. Nothing below is ground breaking, but breaking it apart may help understand and manage the process better. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and comments. Prioritization Model:

Not all startups were born alike. Different startups need to prove different things. In this post I will present one way to break apart the different models startups can be built upon and accordingly some of the main things you will need to prove. The Scale – Value spectrum:   Scale Company: Twitter, Airbnb If [...]