What Product Management Really Means and How Clueless I Was

Category : Advice, Featured, Technology

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Last Saturday I grabbed some coffee with Jason Evanish (@evanish) a bright, dare i say wise, product manager from KISSmetrics (think of a supercharged version of google analytics giving you better information about user experience). Jason Shen, who is also a superstart but I have yet to meet, hooked the meeting up after learning about my interest in product management.

Some take aways from our conversation.

  1. The vision I had of product management, and I don’t know exactly what influenced this vision, is not what it REALLY is. Will elaborate below.
  2. San Francisco’s tech culture makes it easy to get almost anyone’s time. Apparently this comes from a tradition of mentoring. Everyone who has “made it” in the Bay at some point received advice at a time where they couldn’t offer anything back. Good news for me because I have little to offer anyone immediately. However I see these blogs entries as way to share something and hopeful someone take something away.
  3. “If you want advice, ask for a job. If you want a job, ask for advice.” Jason adopted this from a saying in the startup community. It reasons if you want money from someone and ask them for it there likely to offer only advice, however when your agenda is ostensibly just advice they may actually surprise you with an investment.

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The Making of FUBU – An Interview with Daymond John

Category : Fashion, Featured, Great Design, Interviews, Technology

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READ THE FULL DAYMOND JOHN INTERVIEW HERE

I am linking to an excellent interview with FUBU’s founder, and a featured shark on ABC’s the Shark Tank, Daymond John. The interview is conducted by Tim Ferris of 4 hour workweek/body fame. This man has a very compelling story. His rise as business maven is an inspiration to anyone who has ever defied the odds and fought to make their way in the world.

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GoSong.net

Category : Featured, Technology, Uncategorized

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The website desciption is pretty straightforward.

“Download MP3 and Music Videos of songs for free. Search songs by typing/movie/album/artist name or lyrics of song.”

Websites like this don’t last for long so get it while the getting is good.

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Chima Designs – 300 cases delivered

Category : Featured, Great Design, Technology

I apologize for the quality of these pictures. All I had to use was a 6+ year old Olympus camera. Your looking at the process of picking up the raw cases from the factory, transporting them home, inspecting and then packaging each one, and lastly shipping them out.

40+ hours was logged by my friends and family who helped me get this work done. I count this as a major success and it was all done in time to get the Crucial Case into The Mac Store by Monday.

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I Present to you – The Crucial Case

Category : Featured, Great Design, Technology

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A glimpse of what is to come

Category : Featured, Great Design, Technology

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In an earlier post I told you that I was deeply involved in work not related to this blog and not related to music. I can’t give you the whole scoop yet. It will all come out VERY shortly. What I can share is this tantalizing photo of what is being produced and what will be available very soon.

I wish that I could tell you all about it right not but it is just not time yet. Check back.

And in case your wondering what “Chima” is, that’s my last name.

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