My buddy Karl just published “Five Things Every Product Team Member Should Know” and it’s well worth the read. Seriously. Stop reading this and go read that.
When I published “12 Lessons Learned Building a Company from Zero to Acquisition” earlier this year the bit on creating product context was…
After Pandora acquired Next Big Sound I started thinking about the next decade. Where to live? What to do? Would I drive a minivan and rock a ponytail?
I knew I wanted to start another company, and that I wanted to be thoughtful about the problem, solution, and lifestyle. …
In 2008 Alex White, Samir Rayani, and I set out to answer a question: how does a band become famous? We spent the next decade building the music analytics company Next Big Sound in pursuit of the answer. It was an insane, exciting, wouldn’t-trade-it-for-the-world experience where we tracked data on…
We’re thrilled to announce that Next Big Sound will be joining Pandora. For the past six years our mission has been to transform the music industry through making social, streaming, and sales data useful to artists and their teams. There is no better way to further our mission than to become part of the leading music service, Pandora, whose belief in the infinite power of music aligns completely with our own.
As part of Pandora, we’ll continue to provide best-in-class analytics and enhance our platform with access to the number one most requested data source: Pandora. Clients, partners, and artists — rest assured it’s business as usual at Next Big Sound. We’re incredibly excited to tap into the data, resources, and expertise of Pandora.
In May 2013 at a Theophilus London show in Prospect Park I reached my hand down to my pocket to check my step count like I had hundreds of times before. This time my daily companion for the past year and a half, the Fitbit Ultra, was missing.
I had…
Product management in my mind boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product.
The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users.
Bring the donuts.
A 1% PM doesn’t have to be a designer, but…
