THE GREAT AMERICAN STARTUP

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

A Product Leadership Retrospective

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.

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

Thursday, August 07, 2014

Oracle Related Posts: An Index

Modern HR: Enterprise Scale, Cloud-Based Learning ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUf9LDC8kuY

Modern HR in the Cloud
https://blogs.oracle.com/OracleHCM/entry/oracle_learn_cloud_drives_business

Oracle Open World Sessions

https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2013/connect/speakerDetail.ww?PERSON_ID=F502E6C92056BF9BB2A44C0710496D00&tclass=popup

* Meet the Experts: Oracle Taleo Business Edition Cloud Service

https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2013/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=9129&tclass=popup

* Oracle Taleo Learn Cloud Service: Aligning Your HR IT with People Functions

https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2013/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=9104&tclass=popup

OHUG

Aligning the Learning Organization to Business Outcomes with the Oracle Learn Cloud

https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2013/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=9104&tclass=popup

https://twitter.com/jobsitnik/status/344521173083766784

Elearning! Recognizes Oracle for Leadership in Learning and Talent Management
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2016352

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Angel Mind

I presented at a CINA event last night focused on helping entrepreneurs understand how to start their start-ups. In my presentation I wanted to provide a snapshot in time of how a typical angel might find, process, evaluate, and invest in their deals. To do this I crunched all my data around my current deal flow and recent investments and created tag clouds in Wordle based on the data and the weighting of that data. The result was this presentation in Prezi called Angel Mind. While the shelf life of the accuracy of the Prezi presentation is short...the audience found it useful and entertaining.

ANGEL MIND

ANGEL MIND on Prezi