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Product Management Advice From the Trenches (Part 2)
In 2005, product management expert Marty Cagan (one of my heroes, who hosted a workshop for our portfolio companies last year) wrote one of the defining papers on Product Management’s role and responsibilities for the consultancy he founded, Silicon Valley Product Group. In it, he had this to say about the way in which technology…
Read Full Article about Product Management Advice From the Trenches (Part 2)The Value of Simplicity in Business Software
What might business software companies learn from the makers of Angry Birds? To respect your users by not making your software unnecessarily complex.
Read Full Article about The Value of Simplicity in Business SoftwareProduct Management Advice From the Trenches
If you’ve read my blog for the last two months, you’ve probably noticed a pretty consistent theme: I’m a big believer in the strategic importance of product management in an early stage software company. If you’ve missed out on my previous posts, don’t worry. You can click here to catch up. In that series, I also broke down the key roles and components of…
Read Full Article about Product Management Advice From the TrenchesTurning Ideas Into Impact: Innovation Can’t Happen Without Flawless Execution
Ideas, especially obvious ones, are worthless; every entrepreneur and geek knows that execution is everything. (Mark) Zuckerberg’s fellow Harvard drop-out Bill Gates didn’t invent crap, either, but he did execute. That’s business.” Consultant, professor, and author Jeff Jarvis wrote those words in a post on his blog, not long after the movie The Social Network…
Read Full Article about Turning Ideas Into Impact: Innovation Can’t Happen Without Flawless ExecutionIndustry Interviews for Market Research: The Dos and Don’ts
What are Industry Interviews? Industry Interviews are informational interviews conducted with participants in a market that the company is selling into, typically not with customers or potential customers. The goal of the interview is not to collect standardized responses for the purpose of quantitative analysis, but is to capture the varied nuances and trends in…
Read Full Article about Industry Interviews for Market Research: The Dos and Don’tsGo with a VC That is More Than a Rolodex
Remember the old joke… “I’m a VC and I’m here to help”? Well, at OpenView Partners it is no joke. We have a firm where the mission after we invest venture capital is to help founders, CEOs and their management teams build great companies with a focus on every company reaching a successful exit (not…
Read Full Article about Go with a VC That is More Than a RolodexHave an Important Problem or Opportunity? Find Your Joe!
My wife’s Story My wife came back from a trip to New York on Friday. She went there to find some specific fabrics for her fashion line project. She was ecstatic walking in the door. “I found Joe!” she proudly told me. She went on to tell me that she had specific fabric examples, didn’t…
Read Full Article about Have an Important Problem or Opportunity? Find Your Joe!Why Every Company Needs an API
For those of you not familiar with the term, an Application Programming Interface (or API) is essentially the source code that allows two independent websites or databases to communicate with one another via an Internet connection. As I’ll soon explain, it’s an extremely valuable business tool for almost any type of company. First, a real-life…
Read Full Article about Why Every Company Needs an APITurning Ideas into Impact
As some of you may know (because you’re probably subscribers!), OpenView got into the newsletter business a couple of years ago. At the time, we were looking at our content marketing strategy and pouring over the many goals we had for content creation, lead generation, and developing true thought leadership in an industry (venture capital)…
Read Full Article about Turning Ideas into ImpactNYC’s Blitz on Technology Education
Hot on the heels of last month’s announcement of a brand new Cornell technology campus on New York City”s Roosevelt Island, Mayor Bloomberg had more big news this afternoon. At his State of the Commonwealth address, the mayor announced the opening of the Software Engineering Academy in Union Square in September. With financial support from…
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