Charles Adler is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Kickstarter. He is an entrepreneur with over 14 years experience in interaction design. Formerly director of strategy and senior information architect at Agency.com, his work in user experience, design, and information architecture is driven by a commitment to all things clean and simple. Previously, he cofounded [...]
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Tom Hulme is Design Director at IDEO London, where he uses a human-centred innovation approach to design new businesses, and the founder of Open IDEO, an open innovation platform. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, he has first-hand experience in building successful enterprises and, as a result, he has a thorough understanding of business. Hulme [...]
API’s in your product – the good, the bad, the ugly
It is all the rage to use 3rd party APIs in products, such as Twitter, Facebook Connect, DirectedEdge and more. APIs provide additional data or functionality such as user-authentication or product-recommendations. They can provide your product with fast access to data and features that would otherwise take a lot of resources and time to do yourself. [...]
Being a Lean Product Manager
From the early days of PeerIndex we’ve been running as a (very) lean startup. This has taught me some lessons about the practice of Product Management in lean startup environments. This is less about the use of customer development tools and finding product market fit but rather about some tips and tricks that made my [...]
Presenting Data—The Rabbit Hole Method
Being a product manager in a data startup offers some interesting challenges. As more and more PMs work for data startups understanding these challenges will help PMs survive the strange world of data. There are two challenges that product managers in data startups face: Translating customer problems into analysis Presentation of data to customers Translation [...]
Three things Airbnb could have done to avoid #ransackgate
The billion dollar start up Airbnb is in the midst of a battle for it’s brand reputation as stories of trashed homes are revealed in what has become known as #ransackgate. A lot has already been written about this, but most of the coverage has centred on the seemingly uncoordinated response from their customer support [...]
Release Early and Often – Where Ljubljana Seedcampers Need Discipline
On July 14th, Mini Seedcamp was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and I went along as a mentor. As usual, Ljubljana and Slovenia put on a great experience with warm (very warm) weather, great food and fine wine along with the all-important wonderful startups. Our first meeting with the startups came in the form of 5 [...]
Creating a Product Culture Starts with Communication
Having a product culture is about having the product, the very thing that you’re building, at the heart of the business, a core aspect that’s granted the attention it needs. This means that everyone in the company is an advocate for what you’re building and how you’re building it. The most successful product-centric companies include [...]
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