Nandini Jammi and Check My Ads
I’ve been following Nandini Jammi’s truth-affirming work at Sleeping Giants for
the last four years, which is…
Startups
14 posts
Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit
A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a…
This Is Why I Hire First for Product Experience
David Cancel’s post This Is Why I Never Hire Product Managers
[https://medium.com/life-learning/this-is-why-…
Will 2016 Be The Year Of The Unicorn Apocalypse In Silicon Valley?
Paul Glader, in a Jan 16th post on the Forbes/ Leadership blog, quotes from a discussion we had with the…
Social Entrepreneurship
I got an early look at allthis [http://allthis.com/] – a community of people
using their talents, skills, and social…
New (old) role, new (old) website, new (old) city
Many folks have noticed (and commented) that I’m again working and writing under the “Mironov Consulting” banner. Here’s…
Kindle version of “Art of Product Management”
Rich Mironov’s “Art of Product Management” has been converted to Amazon’s Kindle
format, and is now available for…
Service Revenue and Upsell Marketing
Much of my consulting lately involves on-demand services (aka software-as-a-service, or “SaaS”). I’m seeing ever-…
Burning Your Boats
I spent 2006 consulting to small tech companies, including seven months as an interim executive. I also nearly co-founded…
Defensive Processes
New ventures begin with an entirely empty slate: no products, no customers, no desks, no organization charts, no established procedures…
Growing Back into Management
There’s a funny paradox about joining a tiny company and helping it grow. If
part of its attractiveness is…
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…