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Today, most companies, VC’s, and product teams are approaching the current generation of AI’s as if their core economics will… [Read More…] about Using AI vs. Finding Your Ground Truth Supremacy

For people like me who peddle ideas, New Years is our key season. It’s the time for us to declare… [Read More…] about 2024: A Career-Making Year for Product Managers

The tech world is all abuzz about how GPT is going to change the business of technology forever. I’m pretty… [Read More…] about PM: Got ChatGPT FOMO? Here’s the Cure.

If you build a house or manufacture a crate of shoelaces, you can pretty well predict how much you’ll earn.… [Read More…] about Executing Continuous Product/Market Fit

‘Innovation Accounting’ is a loose term for the idea that companies need new metrics to manage innovation, the dominant competitive… [Read More…] about The One Metric for Innovation Accounting (and How to Use it)

I’m working to help people like you find a smoother, more enjoyable path to creating great products…

I’m super interested in how we create the general manager of the future…

Stop showing people your prototypes- it’s just not right. Sure, they’ll tell you they like them…

Hey, After bringing up the whole digital literacy thing in my first letter, I thought I’d just tell you a little more about what I mean and how you can get there…

Hey, I know it’s tough out there…

Bob, I’ll call him Bob, is a good guy. A nice guy. A well-intentioned guy. I’ll start by saying that.

There once was a founder named Macon
who venture money had taken…

Here are a few questions I see:
‘How do I get buy-in?’
‘How do I get budget?’
Good questions, but …

As an instructor, I feel like I spend a lot of time undoing the myth that all successful startups: …

‘I’ve had it- we’re switching.’ ‘The salesperson from [the other leading vendor] is telling me [all our problems will be… [Read More…] about The Secret Truth About Switching Your Enterprise Software Vendor

When businesses are pitching investors, too often you’ll see that slide in their deck describing the target user: a busy… [Read More…] about 3 Common Mistakes in Building User Personas

When I visit enterprise/B2B companies to talk about agile and Venture Design, I often hear ‘Hey, this stuff is great,… [Read More…] about Using Agile IRL with Big Customers

Luminaries like Stephen Hawking & Elon Musk have expressed their deep concern about ‘the singularity’, a moment in the future… [Read More…] about The Lean Startup & The Singularity

Among other things, I’m an advisor to startup’s and ‘intrapreneurial’ ventures. I’m no sage, so what I can offer them is… [Read More…] about Innovating Backwards & Forwards

Innovation: everybody wants some! Below are 8 practical tips anyone can apply. These ideas are meant to propel the kind… [Read More…] about 8 Things You Can Do to Be More Innovative

The Business Model Canvas’ chief virtue is its transparency, and that transparency helps create focus. That said, to create a… [Read More…] about 3 Steps Tips on Creating an Awesome Business Model Canvas

In ‘7 ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR THE FULL STACK PRODUCT PERSON‘ I introduced this idea of a ‘full stack product person’:… [Read More…] about The Full Stack Product Team- 3 Sketches

If you don’t think through the experience you want customers to have, who will? If you have to make a… [Read More…] about Exit Flatsville – Using Storyboards to Energize Your Agile User Stories

We’re all creative and we want to be effective, doing work that matters. Long on a quest to be the… [Read More…] about 7 Essential Skills for the Full Stack Product Person

I just (quietly) debuted a new product last week: Brand Lattice, a web-based tool for creating mood boards to better… [Read More…] about My Latest Lean Startup Adventure

Like so many similar enterprises in design thinking, it began with an individual. His first book, ‘Division Street: America‘, explored… [Read More…] about Studs Terkel: Design Thinker

My favorite framework for thinking about the customer lifecycle is “AIDA” (attention, interest, desire, action). I also like to add… [Read More…] about Animating User Acquisition with Storyboards in 6 Steps

I’ve recently done a few workshops for ‘intrapreneurs’, folks at existing businesses who are rolling out new products and new… [Read More…] about Adventures in Intrapreneurship- 8 Tips

I’ve made the Venture Design process available for free through a combination of tutorials, templates and examples. The aforementioned page is one of… [Read More…] about Updated Venture Design Template!

I first met Nir Eyal at Stanford’s d.School and immediately engaged with his work on customer behavior. It has three… [Read More…] about Beyond Design Thinking- Think Like a Shrink!

It’s like watching the fall of the Berllin Wall in slow motion: as popularity of the traditional business plan wanes,… [Read More…] about The business plan is dead. Long live the business plan!

Duct tape is enjoying a well-deserved resurgence, much of it from rising interest in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Yet I’ve… [Read More…] about Take a Closer Look at that Duct Tape- Customer Discovery Hacks

I’ve run a few startups and meet with many more through speaking events and community work related to my book.… [Read More…] about Four Zombie Startups & How to Resuscitate Them

Several startup’s I’ve met are either: a) testing the market for a B2B product venture or b) doing consulting and… [Read More…] about 6 Tips to Consulting as B2B ‘Concierge’ Vehicle

I enjoyed participating in a podcast and webinar with Cindy Solomon on disrupting corporate IT and enterprise software. Cindy’s the founder of the… [Read More…] about Web Events on Disrupting Corporate IT and Enterprise Software

The videos below cover the second segment of a talk I’ve been doing- It Works When You Do It. If… [Read More…] about Applying Leading Ideas in Tech Product Development- a B2C Example