MVP or Version 1.0?

I came across this interesting article on MVP. The term MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is being thrown around quite a bit in both small and large companies. The original intent of MVP during the early Lean startups movement 10 years ago was a bit narrow. To learn something about your idea, to validate a hypothesis. […]

The First Steps While Starting up your Startup

You have this awesome idea about a product and decide to start a company. Where do you start? What are the first steps? Frequently, startups will jump right into product building and hope that it will sell. We tend to bias our own experiences. If I am having this problem, then others surely are. As […]

Revenue Sources in B2B Saas

In B2B Saas, subscription license is the main source of revenue. But there are several sources of revenues. Subscription fee – this is a fee customer pay based on some parameters e.g. Salesforce users pay by the number of seats, AWS charges customers based on API usage, some companies charge based on data volumes. For […]

The Riskiest Assumption Test (RAT)

The RAT should precede your MVP Bringing a new product to market carries risks throughout its life cycle. As a founder or a product manager, you need to be aware of these risks all the time. At any given point of time there is one assumption that is is the riskiest. And that’s the risk […]

All product managers are responsible for growth

Let me start with a bit of a controversial statement. All product managers are responsible for growth. Whatever your responsibilities are as a product manager or whatever level you are in your organization, you are responsible for growth. You may be a PM in B2C or a B2B company. You may be responsible for customer […]