Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

To be able to get the new model out the door, product manager Kate Arnold had to bring together the Netflix founders on strategy, and work with users, analytics, design, engineering, with marketing on the new acquisition model, with finance on the business model and billing, with the warehouse on fulfillment, and with film industry.

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sears had pioneered the mail-order catalog business almost 40 years earlier, but Herter had the insight that the same concept might work in a much smaller niche market that was, at the time, served by mom-and-pop storefronts. Disruptive? In 1937, mail order was as innovative and disruptive as e-commerce in 1999.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market. It was only $60M vs. Windows which at that point was more than a $1B market. PowerMacs were just hitting the market, which had significantly faster chips and more memory. Martina has gone on to have a remarkable career, in both product management and product marketing.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But back, but yeah, I mean, back-to-back in like 2007-2008 timeframe, I actually acquired a small ad network. And we also learned that kind of the market we’re in wasn’t the best. It was 2007, which I realized is 13 years ago, which feels like a very long time. But it’s gone by pretty quickly. SEEDSTRAPPED.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

DC : Probably one that’s not even officially a start up but I started a nice thing called ghost story and which is a browser plugin privacy browser plugin and I started that in 2008. And by the fifth time you’re certifiable at this point. Like starting businesses cause when you go through it is. But at least you can see something.

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