Is India aping the West a bad idea? Often is, though not always But certainly is a bad idea in one area that I know of Product Management It may sound harsh or bitter, but it must be said and I have lived and worked in the US most of my working life Whenever a Product Manager is stuck Or …
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If you are building a b2b product, one of the trickiest things is pricing. Lots of information is available on this topic, and there are books, sites, tools dedicated to this. While product managers, marketers and founders discuss and debate pricing, something more important is often missed. * Articulation of value * Nobody buys business products for fun – and …
Continue ReadingThe question that often stumps people… What does it take to build great products? How come some products are “world class”… And others are just around – good and making money But you would not call them leaders in their space. As a #productmanager, I am tempted to talk of all the science and theory You need to have customer …
Continue ReadingI was not smart enough, or simply too proud to ask this question when I started. But someone, one of our #productmanagement interns asked this. What do you do when you take up a new #productmanager role? It got me thinking… Here are some pointers: Keep reading and learning how to apply new concepts – Best learning happens when you …
Continue ReadingAs techies, many of us love and hate jargon If it’s some term that other people are using then you may find it silly If it’s a term that you are using then it just seems cool Off course terms come and go Hype cycles rise and crash Newly coined terms come into vogue and fade Anyone remember SMAC? What …
Continue ReadingI got a lot of things wrong when I became a #productmanager. I was asked to take over a product that was rapidly declining in revenues and relevance. Before that I was an engineering manager who had done well. Like many who are promoted rapidly in a fast growing organization. I was aggressive, sometimes arrogant and sometimes ignorant; taking over …
Continue ReadingThis is a classic trap. For many startups I fell into this a couple of times. Founders study the market. It’s usually filled with solutions. Many solutions. Same or similar problem. There is overlap, but nothing does it alone. Or hardly anyone seems to be. Grand strategy is unveiled. Be the one-stop-shop. Unfortunately, it’s a bad idea. More often than …
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In business as in life you don’t get what you deserve you get what you negotiate. I read this for the first time several years ago in a book on #negotiation (Later I found out that there is even a book with that as its title). At the time I was seeking a pay raise and promotion after working in …
Continue Reading10 out of 10 tech CEOs and startup founders say this. When asked what do they want to achieve. They want to grow. They want more customers. They want more revenue. If you ask what will it take to achieve that? 8 out of 10 will say: Better GTM. More leads. More sales people. If you are in a commoditized …
Continue ReadingDo you believe that college is useless? That expertise is of no value? That experience is just for old people… Experts, thought leaders and social media teachers are exploding. It’s a common misconception that anything you want to learn, you can learn on YouTube. Tell me the names of people who have built a rocket by watching videos. Done breakthrough …
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