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Jul 10, 2018

“Five Things Every Product Team Member Should Know”

🌅 Mission → 🗺️ Strategy → 🏋️‍ Goals → ☑️ Projects → 📈 Metrics — 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…

Product Management

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“Five Things Every Product Team Member Should Know”
“Five Things Every Product Team Member Should Know”
Product Management

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Jun 21, 2018

Eight Criteria for Starting a New Company

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. …

Startup

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Startup

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Feb 5, 2018

12 Lessons Learned Building a Company from Zero to Acquisition

The Story of Next Big Sound: 2008–2017 — 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…

Startup

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12 Lessons Learned Building a Company
12 Lessons Learned Building a Company
Startup

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Oct 12, 2017

Big life update time!

In the past year, my daughter was born, Liv and I got married, and I left the only job I’ve ever known at Next Big Sound and Pandora. My wife, daughter, and I are spending the next year traveling and trying our hand at some new projects. Right now we’re…

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Big life update time!
Big life update time!
Life

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·May 20, 2015

Pandora to Acquire Next Big Sound!

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.

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Feb 15, 2015

Step by Step

A Love Letter to the Fitbit Ultra, A Six Tracker Showdown, and My Dream Activity Tracker — 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…

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Step by Step
Step by Step

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Feb 10, 2014

Product Resources

My favorite posts on building products — What Is Product Management? by Sachin Rekhi Product management in my mind boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. A Product Manager’s Job and Let’s talk about Product Management by Josh Elman The job of a product manager is to help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users. Leading Cross Functional Teams by Kenneth Norton

Product Management

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Product  Resources
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