public
Burning Your Boats
I spent 2006 consulting to small tech companies, including seven months as an interim executive. I also nearly co-founded…
Richard Mironov
Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and revenue software organizations. He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO.
424 posts
•
public
public
Crowding Out Tech Support
This week, there’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere and popular press about “crowdsourcing” — empowering crowds of…
public
Avoiding the Post-Course Correction
As early as 1961, Soviet and American space scientists planned for mid-course corrections: those tiny bursts of rocket power…
public
Owning the Gap
Product managers are usually the people who “own the gap” for their specific products: identifying all of the missing or…
public
Open Source: Tree Museums
2005 was a great year for open source developers and solutions, with a dramatic boost in credibility, tools and respect.…
public
Defensive Processes
New ventures begin with an entirely empty slate: no products, no customers, no desks, no organization charts, no established procedures…
public
Sharks, Pilot Fish, and the Product Food Chain
When you’re launching a new venture, one of your hungry competitor earliest considerations is how your innovation might fit…
public
Product Management is Inherently Political
Recently, I had lunch with a bright young product manager trying to perfect the process for deciding which features to…
public
Growing Back into Management
There’s a funny paradox about joining a tiny company and helping it grow. If
part of its attractiveness is…
public
Growing Back into Management
There’s a funny paradox about joining a tiny company and helping it grow. If part of its attractiveness is…
public
Girls Getting a Head Start(-Up)
Most founders of VC-backed start-ups tend toward technical degrees, MBAs and
forty-something gray hair – with a strong…
public
Risk-Sharing and Customer-Perceived Value
Whenever customers buy your product or service, there’s a leap of faith that they will get value from you.…