Product Management

Yesterday my wife and I took our twins (who will be 3 next month) to Disneyland for the first time. It was wonderful and fascinating to watch them experience all that is Disney for the very first time. I could probably write a short essay on that alone, but for this post I want to [...]

What’s more important, great engineering or insane product management? Well, seeing as I’m not an engineer for shit (although I think I might have been in a past life), I’ll say the passionate product guy. I don’t think this has been the common thinking for some time, at least as long as I can remember. [...]

When I first was introduced to Words with Friends something clicked. I guess a lot of people had that experience as the game is hugely successful. The thing is, I really don’t enjoy Scrabble that much. I pretty quickly realized what it was I liked about the game, it was the back-and-forth, play at your [...]

So my second app is now live on Android store. This one is quite a bit different and really just another experiment so that I can learn even more about the mobile space and specifically mobile monetization. The app is called 5-Minute Headache Relief and it’s really quite simple. It is essentially a little Android [...]

Many people would probably say that I can be pretty scattered, in a micro level that may be true. Just ask anyone that’s ever gotten into a conversation with me via instant messenger while I’m on the road. I’m practically on to the next though before the other person has had time to respond to [...]

We all know about the now ubiquitous idea “thinking outside the box”. By now you’ve heard it so many times both in work and school it’s hard to give the concept any credit. Well, even if it’s overused it’s a good concept. Thinking outside the box simply suggests that you take off your blinders and [...]

That statement paints such a vivid picture for me; it’s true, you can’t. And as it relates to launching products it’s an important lesson. My experience at Leads360 and other startups is that there is a lot of pressure, internally and externally, to innovate and build the next big thing. We’re always looking for another [...]