A Quick Product Leadership Retrospective
Starting early in my career I have always gravitated toward developing new initiatives from early ideation through to productization. Innovation and the start-up ecosystem runs in my DNA, for better or for worse:
I've had some time to hang out this summer and took a few minutes to reflect on my product mangement history. I've skipped a few products here and there. I also kept a few examples of great products that didn't win out in the marketplace -- but many of them did succeed and are still proving of value...
Webster at Aurigin Software
My first taste of this was at Aurigin software, an analytics business focused on the visualization of intellectual property assets and citation analysis in particular. At Aurigin we built some extremely cool viz and analysis tools, none more cool than a project we nicknamed "Webster".
Here is the Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US6877137
Mobile at AvantGo
At AvantGo I spearheaded a Mobile Learning initiative as documented in Wireless Inc.: http://greatamericanstartup.blogspot.com/2011/02/excerpt-from-wireless-inc-by-craig.html
FieldSpace at TailWind
At TailWind: http://jungpeter.com/tailwind/index.html
We focused on mobile security and tracking.
The patent application:
http://www.patents.com/us-20060010096.html
Served: Pfizer, Army, Navy
Webley for Parus Interactive Inc.:
Re-focused brand, market and product. Transitioning from http://www.parusinteractive.com/ to http://webley.com.
My eLife for My Vision One Inc.
A now defunct Tony Robbins project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L7Yi-pkvJw&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOdObKK0jo&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Net Promoter for Satmetrix:
Piloted Version 1 of the Certification Product in London, 2007
http://www.netpromoter.com/training/index.jsp
Facebook Challenge App from Zazengo
http://www.slideshare.net/zazengo/zazengo-create-your-own-challenge-on-facebook?next_slideshow=1
Morfmobile Mobile Site Generator
http://mitch.carbonmade.com/projects/2095025#1
http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/19/latest-mobilebeat-nominations-nim-rnw-waterfall-mobile-youmail-v-enable-buzzd-appvoyage-jibe-morf/
Re-focused business on serving businesses rather than consumers:
http://www.pr6.com/morf.html
BeyondThePod | The DropSpot | Venjuvo
VenJuvo offered exchanges of pre-owned items for credits that could be used to purchase other pre-owned items through their service involving websites venjuvo.com, Kmart.Trade4Credit.com and Sears.Trade4Credit.com. Ahead of the curve ealier version of Gazelle.com.
Starting early in my career I have always gravitated toward developing new initiatives from early ideation through to productization. Innovation and the start-up ecosystem runs in my DNA, for better or for worse:
I've had some time to hang out this summer and took a few minutes to reflect on my product mangement history. I've skipped a few products here and there. I also kept a few examples of great products that didn't win out in the marketplace -- but many of them did succeed and are still proving of value...
Webster at Aurigin Software
My first taste of this was at Aurigin software, an analytics business focused on the visualization of intellectual property assets and citation analysis in particular. At Aurigin we built some extremely cool viz and analysis tools, none more cool than a project we nicknamed "Webster".
Here is the Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US6877137
Mobile at AvantGo
At AvantGo I spearheaded a Mobile Learning initiative as documented in Wireless Inc.: http://greatamericanstartup.blogspot.com/2011/02/excerpt-from-wireless-inc-by-craig.html
FieldSpace at TailWind
At TailWind: http://jungpeter.com/tailwind/index.html
We focused on mobile security and tracking.
The patent application:
http://www.patents.com/us-20060010096.html
Served: Pfizer, Army, Navy
Webley for Parus Interactive Inc.:
Re-focused brand, market and product. Transitioning from http://www.parusinteractive.com/ to http://webley.com.
My eLife for My Vision One Inc.
A now defunct Tony Robbins project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L7Yi-pkvJw&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOdObKK0jo&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Net Promoter for Satmetrix:
Piloted Version 1 of the Certification Product in London, 2007
http://www.netpromoter.com/training/index.jsp
Facebook Challenge App from Zazengo
http://www.slideshare.net/zazengo/zazengo-create-your-own-challenge-on-facebook?next_slideshow=1
Morfmobile Mobile Site Generator
http://mitch.carbonmade.com/projects/2095025#1
http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/19/latest-mobilebeat-nominations-nim-rnw-waterfall-mobile-youmail-v-enable-buzzd-appvoyage-jibe-morf/
Re-focused business on serving businesses rather than consumers:
http://www.pr6.com/morf.html
BeyondThePod | The DropSpot | Venjuvo
VenJuvo offered exchanges of pre-owned items for credits that could be used to purchase other pre-owned items through their service involving websites venjuvo.com, Kmart.Trade4Credit.com and Sears.Trade4Credit.com. Ahead of the curve ealier version of Gazelle.com.
http://www.cnet.com/news/gadget-trade-in-services-that-pay-off/
Saba Social Learning at Saba
A wide range of posts:
http://www.saba.com/us/search/?q=koehn
A wide range of videos:
http://greatamericanstartup.blogspot.com/2011/08/saba-related-blog-posts-index.html
Relaunch of Learn.com as Oracle Learn Cloud:
Big splashes in the first 6-9 months:
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1922260
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2020966
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2132580
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2005750
http://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/news/read?GUID=23737101
A broad index of coverage:
http://greatamericanstartup.blogspot.com/2014/08/oracle-related-posts-index.html
