The inauguration has me in a patriotic mood. Instead of writing my planned post on leadership, I’d like to tell a story from American history. For those of you who don’t know me, in addition to being an
Entrepreneur
About starting a company & being an entrepreneur
The Art of Failure
I learn more from my failures than I do from successes, and so as a result, I have done a lot of learning in my career. My list of failures is long and growing. Among my more notable ones include
A Product Manager’s Lessons From a Failed Feature
I had a great idea for a feature in the early days of CloudHealth: enabling customers to collaborate around their cloud resources. For example, a manager might want to let their DevOps engineer know they forgot to “turn the lights
The Importance of the M in MVP
One of my early Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) in the founding of CloudHealth Technologies was to test the value proposition of cloud cost optimization. I needed to validate two critical assumptions to my product idea: (1) I could drive a
The Importance of Cycle Time in Build-Measure-Learn Loops
The Lean Startup movement popularized the concept of Build-Measure-Learn (BML) as a means to reduce the risk of the creation of new products and businesses. The concept is simple: build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), measure the product’s effectiveness
What I Learned Starting a Company
October is the two year anniversary of the acquisition of my company, CloudHealth Technologies, by VMware. CloudHealth as a private company was definitely a labor of love for me, starting with the irrational decision to leave my job with two