Archives for the 'Personal' Category
Why ProductCamp Will Help Push Austin Over the Tipping Point
Austin has creativity and lots of high tech startups. The time to organize all of that Product Management talent is now. You can make a strong argument that East of the Sierra Nevada, Austin is the high tech epicenter of the U.S., so Product Managers - it’s time to step up and help define the future of Product Management and Product Marketing!
Why Product Management is Open Source’s Fatal Flaw
Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is great - I have released code under the GPL, LGPL, and similar licenses. There are mountains of FOSS available right now for download from sites like SourceForge and others that save businesses millions of dollars. More importantly, open source software offers feature sets and mixes that often [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Interviewed!
Derek Morrison is running a neat series of interviews with other Product Management bloggers. I was his 4th interview, and as usual I wrote too much for just one post, forcing him to break it into three parts. That’s what I refer to as brute force marketing - overwhelm your audience with content until they [...]
Just Demo It!
Pragmatic Marketing asked me to participate in their first BlogFest on the topic of demoing at trade shows, which Steve Johnson kicked off with his article Why Demo at Trade Shows?
What is a trade show? Breaking down the word, a trade show is the place where you show your trade. If you [...]
Triumph’s Product Development Process
I’ve been out of pocket for awhile and unfortunately too busy to post! As I try to get back in the swing of things, I’ve begun to look at the products from companies I most admire. Triumph is British manufacturer of classic cruisers (think: Harley’s), tourers, and crotch rockets (if the Japanese companies [...]
