Successful products are not an accident, even if they may look like it from the outside. Successful products are the end result of a series of challenges tackled well.
While each business is unique, many of these product challenges are not.
As Indian startups are working towards building market-winning products, wouldn’t it be great if we could learn from some of Silicon Valley’s best and avoid costly mistakes?
With this goal, Confianzys is getting Rich Mironov, a product management coach/mentor to Bangalore in February.
As part of the event, Rich will be conducting an interactive seminar for startups on identifying key challenges for product firms, and how these can be tackled.
Rich Mironov coaches product executives, product management teams and agile development organizations. He is a seasoned tech executive and serial entrepreneur: the “product guy” at six Silicon Valley start-ups including as CEO and VP Products/Marketing.
Rich combines “what-we-can-build” with “what-markets-will-pay-for” viewpoints. Since 2001, Rich also has been an interim executive, consultant or adviser to dozens of early-stage companies and larger technology firms including Yahoo, Cisco, Wealthfront, WhiteHat Security, Varian and VeriSign.
Rich has seen the ups and downs of the product industry in Silicon Valley. He has seen the product industry in the US also turn out turkeys by not focusing on basics. If the idea is not validated, development methodology like Agile can only take you twice as fast down the wrong path.
The seminar covers topics like:
- What makes good ideas turn to valued products
- How to crack your product challenges before the market cracks you
- The market only pays for what it really needs. How should you build this right?
As Rich says, “The really successful start-ups are those that believe that they are half right, and half wrong, and quickly figure out which half is wrong– not that the ones that believe they are doing everything right.”
Here’s an opportunity to learn from Rich directly. The seminar Silicon Valley antidotes to product challenges faced by entrepreneurs is scheduled for 25 February 2015 between 3-6PM at My Fortune hotel, Richmond Road, Bangalore.
You can register here for the seminar or read more at The Secret Sauce webpage. iSPIRT members can use the code iSPIRTMEMBERS to get a 25% off on the entry price.