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AI Agents Helped Me Ship Five Products. Two Are Already Profitable. Software

AI Agents Helped Me Ship Five Products. Two Are Already Profitable.

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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Signs You Need a Product Strategist (And Signs You Don't) Software

Signs You Need a Product Strategist (And Signs You Don't)

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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Feature Prioritization When Everything Feels Urgent Software

Feature Prioritization When Everything Feels Urgent

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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Are Large Software Teams Still Relevant in the Age of AI? Software

Are Large Software Teams Still Relevant in the Age of AI?

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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How to Validate an AI Product Idea (Before You Spend $50K) Software

How to Validate an AI Product Idea (Before You Spend $50K)

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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Why AI Broke Product Management (And How to Fix It) Software

Why AI Broke Product Management (And How to Fix It)

Everything you learned about product management is wrong for AI products. Roadmaps? Useless when underlying capabilities change every few weeks. …

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Everyone Has an AI Problem (Most Are Solving the Wrong One) Software

Everyone Has an AI Problem (Most Are Solving the Wrong One)

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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Product Strategy for Early-Stage Startups: A Founder's Framework Software

Product Strategy for Early-Stage Startups: A Founder's Framework

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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How to Validate a Startup Idea in 2 Weeks (Before Writing Code) Entrepreneurship

How to Validate a Startup Idea in 2 Weeks (Before Writing Code)

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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The Lean MVP Playbook: Build & Validate in 6 Weeks Software

The Lean MVP Playbook: Build & Validate in 6 Weeks

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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Best Full-Time Product Teams for Software Founders: A Hiring Guide Software

Best Full-Time Product Teams for Software Founders: A Hiring Guide

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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North Star Metrics: The One Metric That Actually Matters Software

North Star Metrics: The One Metric That Actually Matters

Having “on-time” as your team’s (or project) success metric is a dangerous endeavor.

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Why Product Roadmaps Fail: Use RICE Prioritization Instead Software

Why Product Roadmaps Fail: Use RICE Prioritization Instead

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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