Software
I shipped five products recently. All within about six weeks. Different stacks, different users, totally different problems. Two of them are already …
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Software
A while back I gave a talk in Austin about product strategy for founders. After the session, several founders came up to me. Not to ask about …
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Software
The hardest part of product isn’t deciding what to build. It’s deciding what not to build. When your biggest customer threatens to churn …
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Software
A 5-person team in 2026 can ship what a 50-person team shipped in 2016. AI has compressed the development curve dramatically. The question every …
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Software
Most AI products fail twice: once when the technology doesn’t work, and again when nobody wants it anyway. Traditional validation focuses on …
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Software
Everything you learned about product management is wrong for AI products. Roadmaps? Useless when underlying capabilities change every few weeks. …
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Software
Your startup doesn’t have an AI problem. It has a product problem that might be solved with AI. This distinction is everything. Get it wrong, …
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Software
The best product strategy isn’t a list of features to build. It’s a clear answer to one question: what change are you creating in your …
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Entrepreneurship
The fastest way to validate a startup idea is to try to kill it—and fail. Talk to 20 potential customers, attempt to pre-sell before building, and …
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AI
The main reason AI projects fail is simple: companies start with the technology instead of the problem. 42% of companies scrapped their AI initiatives …
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Software
The fastest way to build a lean MVP is to build the smallest experiment that tests your riskiest assumption—not a scaled-down version of your vision. …
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AI
The fastest way to ship AI products is with a pod—a small, complete team that owns outcomes—not traditional hiring. A 3-4 person pod (ML engineer + …
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Software
Your first product hire should complement your weaknesses, not duplicate your strengths. If you’re a technical founder, hire a product designer …
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Design
Dribbble broke UX design by rewarding beautiful screenshots over functional user experiences. The platform created a generation of …
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Thoughts
Trusth those who have walked the path, not those who sell you hard on a promise.
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Productivity
When was the last time you were productive for 8 hours a day sitting in front of your computer?
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Software
Having “on-time” as your team’s (or project) success metric is a dangerous endeavor.
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Software
For over 12 years I’ve worked with SaaS product teams. Many have been successful in launching and generating revenue, others failed to ship. It …
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Entrepreneurship
The best competitive strategy is to ignore your competitors and obsess over your customers instead. After 18 years and 5 startups, I’ve watched …
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