Archives for October 2008
Product Beautiful on Alltop
April Dunford of Rocket Watcher somehow has a direct line to Mr. Marketing himself, Guy Kawasaki, and got a Product Management page established on Alltop. Alltop is a Yahoo-style blog directory, the idea being that it hosts the “top” sites for each topic, picked by hand. It’s an honor to be included, but I also [...]
The Big Company Survival Kit for Startup PM’s
There is so much territory to cover on this topic that this is probably the beginning of another series. This post focuses on differences and expectation setting between small and big companies, and lessons learned making the leap between the two.
I’ve always considered myself a startup kind of guy, and for the past two years [...]
Sign Fail…
I spotted this the other day at work and had to snap a photo with my iPhone. How do you know you’ve given up?
Using Social Networking in Product Management
There are three categories of customers you should be talking to as a Product Manager: Current Customers, Evaluators, and Prospects. If you have an established business, finding Current Customers to talk to should be easy. Evaluators are slightly more problematic, but you can also access them via win/loss analysis, and at least you know who they are. Finding Prospects is always a challenge, but now finding them is easy if you know where to look.
