Testing with customers—remotely
How do you casually approach and talk to customers during lockdown, when everyone is remote? I pinged Rob Fitzpatrick, author of The Mom Test, and he...
Behind the Glasses Blog
Learning by doing
For better and for worse, when I think about developing product solutions to customer problems, my mind often works like a feasibility search—I’m...
New toys to play with
That dev kit I bought and tried to stand up was an albatross, and I finally returned it for a refund. Now I can move forward and pivot to experiments...
Listening to my hidden voice… and the real voices
Introducing my little Product Voice — Something I learned early on in my career as a Product leader was to trust the little Product Voice in my...
Hypothesis invalidated
I’ve been running (and repeating) a Lean Sprint designed to address a top-of-mind business risk, which I wrote as: I don’t have the skills to work...
Remind me why
Are you trying to prove something to yourself, or are you trying to test a concept? I thought I had set out on this dev kit work because I wanted to...
This… this is not a toy
This week has been a slog trying to get my dev kit up and running. I suppose the last time I setup a dev kit, it was an EZ-KIT LITE. This one is more...
My Secret IP
IP Strategy is one of the big topics I’m getting my head around in this startup. What is my IP right now? What of that is worth protecting? How...
Mentee
Last week I was accepted into the Spring 2020 cohort of the MIT Enterprise Forum Mentor Program. On Wednesday the organization hosted a virtual...
Accounting is an intangible asset
With a company bank account setup and startup expenses accruing for the last few months, I’ve been learning accountant and bookkeeping—which is way...