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LinkedIn for iPhone 3.0 is LIVE!
Just a quick note to say that the new version of LinkedIn for iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Download LinkedIn for iPhone I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on the official LinkedIn blog, so...
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eBay’s Value Problem is a Search Problem
It has been quite a long time since I posted here about eBay. I still use the site regularly (I typically still list at least a few things every month), and while I may tweet about things from time to...
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The Man in the Gorilla Suit
A fun article appeared today on Silicon Alley Insider: Silicon Alley Insider: What’s It Like Working for LinkedIn by Nicholas Carlson It’s a short piece that covers the basics of working for a...
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LinkedIn for Blackberry: Get It Now
I know this is my personal blog, but sometimes launches are big enough that I feel compelled to announce them here as well. LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn for Blackberry: Anytime, Anywhere You can download it...
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Tweets: LinkedIn, Twitter & Lists
Today I had the privilege of taking the wraps of a feature enhancement that my team has been working on for the past few weeks: the new version of Tweets. LinkedIn Blog: Find and Follow Your LinkedIn...
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Want Engagement? Find the Heat.
If you talk to product managers, designers, and engineers at almost any consumer internet company these days, you’ll find that they measure their success largely across three dimensions: Growth (more...
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Proposed Solution: Quicken 2007 & Mac OS X Lion
Right away, you should know something about me. I am a die-hard Quicken user. I’ve been using Quicken on the Mac since 1994, which happens to be the point in time where I decided that controlling my...
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How to Make a Great T-Shirt: Metrics
This is the third post in my series on “How to Make a Great Tech T-Shirt“. Define Success to Achieve Success On the consumer web, product managers succeed and fail based on their ability to define,...
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LinkedIn as a Platform
From the first conversations that I had with Reid Hoffman about LinkedIn, what was striking was the amazing clarity about how value is created by social web properties. Those conversations turned into...
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Designers: Getting the Most Out of Your Product Manager
I gave a lighthearted talk yesterday at the LinkedIn User Experience team’s all hands meeting. I called it “Getting the Most Out of Your Product Manager”, and it was intended to talk from the...
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Joining Greylock
Today, John Lilly put up a really nice note on the Greylock Partners blog officially welcoming me to the firm. Needless to say, I’m both honored and excited to be joining such a great team. We’re...
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Steve Jobs, BMW & eBay
There have been so many articles posted on Steve Jobs in the past week, I really thought I wasn’t going to add one here on my blog. However, yesterday, John Lilly wrote a great piece on Steve Jobs...
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Be a Great Product Leader
People who know me professionally know that I’m passionate about Product Management. I truly believe that, done properly, a strong product leader acts as a force multiplier that can help a...
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Pinterest & LinkedIn: Identity of Taste vs. Expertise
It’s hard to go three feet in Silicon Valley these days without someone commenting on the phenomenal engagement and growth being seen from Pinterest and other curation-based social platforms. What’s a...
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Top 10 Product Leadership Lessons
On Sunday, I was fortunate enough to give a talk at the 9th annual Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. I’m trying to be better about posting the slides from these talks as they...
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Product Leaders: User Acquisition Series
I can be pedantic about user acquisition. The truth is that consumer web and mobile applications are under increasing pressure to demonstrate explosive exponential traction. Building a great product...
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User Acquisition: The Five Sources of Traffic
This is the first post in a three post series on user acquisition. The topic of this blog post may seem simplistic to those of you who have been in the trenches, working hard to grow visits and...
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User Acquisition: Viral Factor Basics
This is the second post in a three post series on user acquisition. In the first post in this series, we covered the basics of the five sources of traffic to a web-based product. This next post covers...
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User Acquisition: Mobile Applications and the Mobile Web
This is the third post in a three post series on user acquisition. In the first two posts in this series, we covered the basics of the five sources of traffic to a web-based product and the...
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New User Experience, Engagement & Virality
One of the great things about working at Greylock is meeting with entrepreneurs and discussing product strategies for virality and self-distribution. Recently, I’ve been struck with how many of these...
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The Game Has Changed. Design for Passion.
One of the most exciting developments in software has been a resurgence in the focus and priority on design. With the growing dominance of social platforms and mobile applications, more and more...
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User Acquisition: Cycle Time Matters
This is an extension to my original three post series on user acquisition. Over the past few months I been fortunate enough to give over a dozen talks at various events and companies about user...
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How to Recover the Left Side Navigation in iTunes 11
I can’t believe I’m writing this blog post, but I am. Last night, I tweeted out my joy at finding out that Apple did, in fact, provide a menu item to re-enable the side navigation in iTunes 11. Now,...
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My Letter to Starbucks Mobile
Dear Starbucks, We’ve been close friends for years. I see you almost every day, some days more than once. I’ve visited you in over half a dozen countries, and there are probably half a dozen locations...
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Make Things As Simple As Possible, But Not Simpler
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a...
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Great Product Leaders Win Games
Being a great product leader is hard. Every organization and process is different, and in many cases your are responsible for the outcome without having the authority to enforce decisions. My recent...
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When Is It OK for a CEO to Take a Stand?
“A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.” — Howard Schultz, Starbucks History has shown that conventional wisdom in corporate communications has...
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Product Leaders as Curators & Editors
A few years ago, I wrote a few posts to outline the requirements for exceptional product leadership: In “Be a Great Product Leader,” I focused on three key responsibilities: strategy, prioritization...
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Spend Time Thinking About The People Who Don’t Use Your Product
This is an extension to my original three post series on user acquisition. Today, AirBnB announced that it had reached a settlement with the city of San Francisco on how to effectively register and...
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Solve the Product Maze Backwards
As the father of young children, I can tell you that there is a special place in my heart for restaurants that provide puzzles and crayons for small children to pass the time. On a recent trip out to...
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