Archives for April 2008
Development: Leave Us the $Foo Alone!
Jeff Lash has a good post up about Delegating. There are some interactions you need to have - like regular tradeoff meetings with Development. As a general rule, programmers hate meetings. A lot of that has to do with the fact that prior to you, they had some “Marketing” airbag pull them [...]
The Curse of the White Sunglasses
Mandy and I went to the mall this weekend to get her some new maternity clothes. While she browsed the Motherhood store, I took up a strategic perch outside so as not to bump bellies with a bunch of pregnant women. Next store was a sunglasses shop, so I figure why not burn a few [...]
Announcing ProductCamp Austin!
Announcing ProductCamp - a collaborative, user run event, focused on Product Management and Marketing topics.
Who *Really* Runs Your Company?
“We’re a Marketing driven company?” “We’re Engineering driven, but we’re trying to change that.” “We’re Sales driven.” I’m sure you’ve heard many of these and more. From the outside looking in, sometimes it can be difficult to tell who is driving the decision making at a company, but here is one sure-fire way [...]
Grab Your Partner!
Problem: You have a great idea but need people with the right skills to help grow it into a real company. The McCombs Entrepreneurial Society has a post about PartnerUp, a new site that provides a solution (hat tip: VentureBeat) . Think of as LinkedIn meets Monster for startups. If you have [...]
Do You Have Great Customers or Power Pissers?
Great Customers are the one’s who want to be your best friend. They are hyper consumers of your product, the ultimate power users, they’re on your forums helping novice users and advocating for you. They might have become this way because your product inspired so much passion in them that they are now [...]
Women who went to church are harder workers?
Time Work in Progress blogger Lisa Takeuchi Cullen writes that women who went to church in their youth end up becoming harder workers.
Researchers at the University of Georgia found that women who had attended religious services frequently (at least once a week) during childhood work about 80 additional hours per year when they are older. [...]
To Startup or Not to Startup
A few months ago, John Milburn of Pragmatic Marketing approached me about writing an article for their magazine about my experiences building a product management organization in a startup. After a lot of collaboration and some good debate, we have an article in this issue of The Pragmatic Marketer entitled “To Startup or Not [...]
Crossing the Border
Even though not Product Management related, this is one of the coolest videos I have seen in a long time. Apparently there is a nightly ritual at the border crossing at Wahga between Pakistan and India where the respective border guards on each side perform a dance to illustrate their contempt for one another. [...]
Margin Analysis
Financial analysis is a key skill for any great Product Manager, yet it is one of the least discussed, taught, or blogged about. Maybe it’s because finances are not sexy or “the accounting team will handle it.” If you are CEO of your product, you had better have a handle on your products’ [...]
