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Tyner Blain is well into its fifth year, and I’m thrilled to say, going strong. The Tyner Blain blog turns 5 tomorrow – on Nov 24th 2010! Thanks so much to everyone who comes here to share, learn, teach, critique, and read!
Category Archives: Slightly off-topic
Bad Product or Bad Positioning? Intel’s Unlockable CPU
Intel introduced the G6951 unlockable CPU consumer product this month. Most of the press has been critical. Is this new chip / upgrade process a bad product, or a good product with bad positioning?
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Posted in Product Management, Quick Post, Slightly off-topic
Tagged intel, intel g6951 benefits, positioning, Product Management
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Great Product Manager Questions
The Laudi Group and Red Canary organized and shared a great set of questions for product managers and answers from a panel of product management leaders. Steve Johnson, another leader in our space shared his answers to the same questions, and in this article, I share mine.
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Posted in Product Management, Slightly off-topic
Tagged product management questions, product manager
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First Impressions
We spend a lot of time (rightly) on the capabilities of our products – identifying valuable problems and compelling solutions. This focus is ideal for addressing the needs of our users. But what if people abandon our products before trying them? First impressions matter – both for buyers and users.
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Posted in Communication, Presentation, Product Management, Slightly off-topic
Tagged bizspark, presentation skills, sxsw accelerator
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Traveling Product Manager
It’s fitting that I’m writing this from the exit row of an MD-80 this evening on the way home from a customer visit. I almost didn’t get the exit row, but I did. I tried for an upgrade to first class, but I was 15th in line – it was a busy flight with a lot of high-status frequent fliers ahead of me. But I’m thrilled to be in the exit row, with the lap-room available to type up these tips that will help you travel.
What Impacts Have You Seen From the Financial Crisis?
We all have seen the commentary from economists, speculators, and journalists. The messages vary from gloom-and-doom to best-opportunity-ever. Warren Buffet talks about being afraid when everyone is buying, and buying when everyone panics. Jason Calacanis talks about tightening our belts (but also talks about opportunity). The general message from venture capitalists seems to be “stop being silly, and start making rational business decisions.” So what are you seeing in your neck of the woods?
Is the SaaS Market Broken, or Just Efficient?
Is SaaS a broken model, with integral flaws, doomed to failure in the next two years? Lawson Software’s CEO, Harry Debes, thinks it is. Perhaps the structural elements of the SaaS reality just break Debes’ business models.
Posted in Product Management, Slightly off-topic
Tagged economics of saas, harry debes, saas, software as a service
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Foundation Series: SaaS Economics (Software as a Service)
There are a bunch of new* ways of selling software these days. SaaS (Software as a Service) has been in the consumer space for a while, and is making significant inroads into the enterprise software space today. If you’re considering purchasing or using software, you should understand what SaaS means and how it is different from the software products of the past.*
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Posted in Business Analysis, Foundation series, Slightly off-topic
Tagged foundation, Foundation series, kadient, saas, software as a service
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Good Enough For Now
Adam Bullied wrote a really good article about not losing motivation in the face of challenges. His closing quote spun us off on a philosophical tangent about being “good enough.”
Outlook Optimization With Xobni
Found a potentially extremely cool plugin for Outlook called Xobni, that would make Outlook a much more powerful tool.
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