Product Management and M&A. Musings of a reformed private equity operator
Excerpted from the CBInsights article. Read the entire piece here: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/bezos-amazon-shareholder-letters/ Since founding Amazon in 1994, Jeff Bezos has run his company according to an unconventional set of core principles:…
Prioritizing Agile epics, user stories, and backlogs is something contemporary product managers have to do on a regular basis. In researching another topic I came across a great piece for…
As a product manager, it is helpful to understand the relative size and success of your competitors. Public software companies are required to report their detailed finances on a quarterly…
I admit that I am a data junkie. I have found that data, both quantitative and qualitative, enables me to better understand key topics and trends. I am a voracious…
20 years ago I learned a technique for analyzing product line sales transactions known as the moneywheel. This approach helps product managers understand the dynamics of sales transaction types for…
The polite answer to this question is “no”. In some circumstances the answer should be “yes”. In this post I will discuss two situations in my career where we ended…
This post focuses on leveraging Pareto Analysis in product management. We will discuss how to use Pareto Analysis to understand product line revenue trends as well as customer support activity.…
Most organizations have started planning marketing budgets for 2019 by now. The focus of this post is to review five items that you should consider in next year’s plan. I…
This posts focuses on when is the best time of the year to release new versions of your products/services. A technique I have used over the years involves analyzing the…
Excellent preso by Bessemer inclung a discussion about their AARG metric. The metric discounts a company’s ARR multiple using its growth rate as a weight to help bring buoyant multiples…