Choosing the right product management leader might mean success or failure for your startup. How to find great ones? In our portfolio companies of expansion stage software companies, the product management process is a critical function because it affects how successfully a company can evolve in its rapid trajectory from a startup to an established…
Read Full Article about What makes great Product Managers at expansion stage companies?Even if your management team has developed a great product that people want to buy and has identified a channel to successfully reach those buyers, your company isn’t necessarily set up for instant success The first iteration of your product may not be the same iteration that scales past early adopters. There are some things…
Read Full Article about You've Got a Product. Now Scale!Competitive Advantage is one of the most talked about areas of business growth strategies. Agile Product Development creates competitive advantage and is one of the major business growth strategies for expansion stage technology companies. Simply put, your development team can create better software faster with agile practices and your team will enjoy the approach better…
Read Full Article about Creating Competitive Advantage with AgileCompetitive Advantage is one of the most talked about areas of business growth strategies. Agile Product Development creates competitive advantage and is one of the major business growth strategies for expansion stage technology companies. Simply put, your development team can create better software faster with agile practices and your team will enjoy the approach better…
Read Full Article about Creating Competitive Advantage with AgileI attended a talk by Dave Hussman at an Agile Bazaar event a few weeks ago at IBM’s offices. In attendance were developers from expansion stage software companies, big established companies, and members of senior management teams. It was sponsored by a number of software vendors, including VersionOne, an OpenView Venture Partners portfolio company, and…
Read Full Article about When to Start Coding?Last week, my colleague at OpenView Venture Partners, Jeremy Aber, provided 5 Practical Tips for Using an Offshore Software Developer, focusing on legal issues. This week and next, I want to share 10 practical tips for choosing an offshore software developer (Jeremy and I are quite competitive), focusing on a few other items. Specifically, I…
Read Full Article about 10 Practical Tips for Choosing an Offshore Software DeveloperMy first take on this topic in last week’s post got a lot of attention, but not the attention I intended. You won’t see many comments on my blog, but you will find many at the SaaS LinkedIn Group where I reposted it. As you can see from the LinkedIn comments, the group primarily focused on an…
Read Full Article about Take II – Why SaaS Companies Suck at Making Usable ProductsI have always wondered why SaaS companies pay so little attention to the usability of their software. And when I say usability, I don’t mean how usable the software is by its developer/designer/CTO. I’m taking about usability from the perspective of the eventual user of that product. The CUSTOMER… From my perspective, the key reason is: SaaS…
Read Full Article about Why do SaaS companies suck at making usable products?Over the last three weeks, OpenView Venture Partners, the Boston Venture Capital firm that I work for, has participated in a blogging competition that was created by our Blogging Platform Provider, Compendium. Everyone at our firm is extremely competitive, and we are always up for a good challenge! That being said, most people at this firm have a lot to say, so…
Read Full Article about Congratulations to Team OpenViewAgile product development has become second nature to us at OpenView… All of our portfolio companies adopts the Scrum approach to Agile Development. Most of them started after we hosted a forum on agile development methods back in 2007. We then asked Jeff Sutherland, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, to become a senior advisor to the…
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