Creating a product is easy. Creating a product that people actually want is another story. When an idea for a new product comes into my head, before writing a single line of code or designing a single screen, I run it through a simple method to confront an early-stage concept

This article is from my blog. If you're interested in how software is reshaping the industrial and hardware worlds through product thinking, feel free to subscribe to my newsletter! In 2017, after my first startup journey, I landed a job as a senior PM in a startup that

When people hear "product director", they imagine a grand strategist orchestrating a symphony ideas. Reality check: most of the time, a CPO is just unclogging organizational bottlenecks all day. Seriously, the job is 90% making sure people talk to each other. From startup chaos to scalable structure During

It took me some time to write this mini post-mortem of my first startup, Kello. But here we are, 12 years after it all began and 6 years after it ended. It's September 21st, 2016. I remember refreshing our Kickstarter page every few seconds, my heart pounding. I

When a startup gets acquired by a large corporation, the product team faces a unique set of challenges. Having been through this myself as a CPO of a startup that was acquired by one of Europe's biggest companies, here's what you can expect and how to