The most successful founding teams for startups are balanced. They have complementary skills that cover the spectrum of what the startup will need to excel. …

Getting direct feedback from customers is critical when building relevant, successful products. Regular customer feedback loops are one of the most apparent indicators of a great team in a startup as it shows that they are solving a problem based in reality — and not just in their heads. Often…

I often see images of the above shared in product groups when questions arise about the “right” way to build new products. But there is no single “right” way to build a new product. Founders that we work with often start with the expectation that there is a single “right”…

Also known as the “holy grail” in startup land, Product-Market Fit (PMF) is a popular target for how you know when you’re ready to scale. It’s the Rubicon you need to cross before you’ve ‘made it’ and are ready to raise series A… /end sarcasm. It is all those things…

This question was recently posed to a group of product managers. I took a stab at the answer and thought I’d share it here too:

Writing a “Product Requirements Document” or “PRD” all too often is part of a Product Managers job. (Particularly in Africa.) It is a single document that outlines all of the reasoning, context, and scope of a particular solution or feature. It’s a comprehensive briefing document that you can share with…

A Vision and Mission is too often regarded as meaningless because there is no clear connection between them and current actions or priorities. However, when this relationship is created it can create a shared goal for a startup or product can significantly help align your team by clearly articulating what…

I recently had a call with an entrepreneur who was in a common predicament: She had been running her startup for a few years, built some great technology and had started signing up some really big customers. All good things. The problem was that they were growing faster than they…