June 10, 2013
Should Your Startup Take a Moonshot?
The moonshot is the purported antidote to incrementalism. It is about great aspirations and what happens when smart people do not worry about what’s possible today. To get to the…
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June 3, 2013
The Holy "Scrum" War
One of our generally mild-mannered beta customers caught me by surprise recently when he said, “Scrum zealots are like vegans and barefoot runners who keep trying to convert me.”…
May 28, 2013
"Goal First" — A Product Roadmapping How-To
How many meetings have you left asking yourself “what did that relate to?” or “what was that decision based on?” Aligning the “whats” and “hows” of business to the “whys” is…
May 20, 2013
Great Beta Programs — A Contrarian View
If your goal is great customer feedback during beta, people actually need to use it, and that means they need to sacrifice to make the time. And people only sacrifice if what is…
May 14, 2013
What You Can Learn from Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate"
Have you seen the movie the Graduate? While in 1967, plastics might have looked like the future, it’s clear more than 40 years later that software is having the greatest…
May 10, 2013
Respect that Knucklehead — 5 Daily Actions for Success
I judge every day in a binary way — did we incrementally add to the value of the company or didn’t we. I feel accomplished when we step forward and eager for the next day when we…
May 6, 2013
The Minimum Lovable Product
The MVP is a curse for ambitious technology companies that want to grow. You should be thinking about what it will take for customers to love you, not tolerate you.
April 30, 2013
Welcome to the Software Revolution
You are lucky to be reading this. And I am even luckier to have written it. That is because we both are alive with a realistic chance to change the course of history.
April 29, 2013
A Start-Up is for Adventure
Every summer since college I have gone backpacking with a group of friends. I organize the trip and we typically are drawn to the High Sierras.