Are You Doing Your Best Work?

I’ve had the pleasure of being a manager for most of career, and one of the questions I ask on a fairly…

Rethinking the Digital Opportunity

I’ve worked in tech my entire career. My hobbies involve tech, my reading involves tech, my side…

Joyful Product Management

Transforming a side project into a career

For the past several months, my business partner Andrew and I have been spending nights and weekends building software products for clients using codeless tools. It’s been exhilarating and…

Speed of Learning Matters

How the Better Product Company builds its software

Overview

• Learning fast is more important than moving fast
• Sustainability is more important than fastest surge

What I Learned from Startupalooza — Andrew’s Take

Twenty-six dollars and sixty-two cents. A small fee, but it purchased 2 minutes of stage time and a handful of questions from a group of local (Washington DC area) investors. When Alex and I set out to start Better Product Company (formerly…

Getting it Built with #BFF Labs

This past Saturday, I had the pleasure to lead a workshop as part of #BFF Labs, a pre-accelerator put on…

10 Steps to Guarantee a Terrible Hiring Process

“What do I know about ____?”

Today, I had the pleasure of hearing Daymond John, of FUBU and Shark Tank fame, address a crowd of radio…

Customers Don’t Need Features

When packaged software could be found on the shelves in big box retailers, I used to spend a fair bit of…

When/Where/How do users use what they use?

A few months ago, I purchased a Nintendo Switch. At the time, this was a silly…