Good ideas, and how to turn good ideas into great products
This last weekend (Saturday, March 15) Yahoo’s training center was the site of the first Silicon Valley product manager’s barcamp. About 150 product managers (and wannabees?) showed up to discuss product management issues ranging from what does product management mean in an agile world, to how to be a product manager for a Facebook app, […]
What are the issues - what happens when customers pick you”?
They need to know what you’re selling
They need to believe what you’re selling addresses an issue or desire they have
They need to be comfortable that what you’re selling actually solves the problem or addresses the desire (that is, they need some kind of proof)
They […]
Yet another web 2.0 definition (YAW2.0D)!
At the SVPMA monthly meeting on December 5, 2007, one of the panelists mentioned an interesting quote attributed to Regis McKenna:
“Customers pick you.”
This is a handy way to think about Web 2.0, and aligns well with Tim O’Reilly’s original Web 2.0 “definition” in 2004. Amazon’s user reviews were one of […]
Wasn’t it Homer Simpson who observed “Everything I really need to know I learned from TV?” Well, there definitely are a lot of things we can learn as product managers from the culture that surrounds us. The following lists some of the high and low points from 2006, and the lessons they teach us about […]
(Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg.)
As product managers, even if your product is a “good one,” you still have the challenge of getting customers successful with it. Customers being successful is actually a huge contributor to a company being successful. This seems obvious when put that way, but apparently, based on the business books I see, […]
