product management

Understanding the Innovator’s Dilemma

October 11, 2011

Stephen Forte applies the Innovator’s Dilemma wrongly to Apple: In a nutshell, the Innovator’s Dilemma says the following (I am paraphrasing): when you invent something, first you are trying to penetrate a new market and convince people to buy your invention. At this stage you will do anything to get noticed. After a while, your […]

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How to Build a New Version of an Operating System

September 5, 2011

Whatever your opinions on Microsoft and Windows are, you should check out the blog by the Windows 8 engineering team about the new features in the upcoming operating system. In particular, the posts about some of the new user interface features (such as changes to the Windows Explorer interface and managing file name collisions during […]

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Entrepreneurship is High Risk, Deserves High Reward

May 9, 2011

Via Jason Cohen, I landed upon this article by Jason Fried about the sale of Mint to Intuit: We need new blood, new companies, new methods, new ideas, new applications, and new leaders to regenerate stale industries. The old must be plowed under by the new. But today it seems like the old is doing […]

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