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Mini-Product Requirements Document
Back in 2023 I did a webinar on Customer Discovery and from interviewing customers you want to distill your insights into a set of documents known as a Product Requirements Documents a PRD. Sometimes we put this information into Epics, Userstories, or Software Requirements Specifications SRS. Overall depending on the industry you will use different…
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Why do IND applications fail?
Drug discovery research is one of the most high-risk ventures of 21st century, millions can be spent on materials, employees, and clinical design. Potentially risking an entire business venture on a single drug, it’s a path not traveled by many business owners or CEOs. In my blog post series, I will highlight key considerations for…
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Argument for Design Sprints
I have witness a trend from companies that don’t value the idea of a design sprint, sprints in general, and SCRUM. I recently saw Linkedin post making fun the design sprint devaluing its existence and purpose without considering why does it exist in the first place? While I do enjoy the occasional meme I don’t…
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Nintendo: A Value Investment
Earlier this year I enrolled myself into the Penn State Online MBA program, because I am specifically interested in economics, finance, business models, and investing. I do a lot of researching & reading on these topics both in and outside of class. One piece of investing advice struck me from Warren Buffet and Peter Lynch.…
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Lessons on Innovation from Nintendo
What is Nintendo’s Moat? Nintendo’s Innovative Strategy Nintendo has existed for over 135 years. It started as a playing card manufacturer of Hanafuda, founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi. [4] Today, in 2024, Nintendo’s market cap is 72 billion USD in the video game software and hardware console market. [5] One common highlight noted by many observers…
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Time Value of Money
Would you rather receive $1,000,000 today or $5,000,000 in 10 years? Time Value of Money would teach that you would rather take the $1,000,00 right now versus waiting for money 10 years later. Because of Cost Opportunity. Instead of waiting for 10 years you would rather take $1,000,000 now and invest it potentially to earn…
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Look Out for this new Text Scam of USPS
Today I just received this text message and I was waiting for new mouse for my computer, because the wire got chewed by my cats. I thought my package got lost because of this message. So I click the link! Foolishly! Then it dawn on me how impressive and high quality this scam was until…
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What is my day to day as a Product Manager 2022-2023
Every day, we start with a quick 10-15 minute team meeting to ensure everyone is aligned and on track. During these meetings, we go over GitLab issues, user stories, and epics. We also review the roadmap, checking with stakeholders to see what’s on the horizon and if we need to rearrange our priorities for any…
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ChatGPT the death of truth; And the rise of reproducibility
Recently I experienced a foolish moment in my life. I suspected someone using ChatGPT for their work, in this context weren’t suppose to use it. Initially I though the numbers were off based on my own calulation and the write up was done immaculately. I suspected they use chatGPT because it was done so well,…
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Absolute Beginners tutorial on GitHub & Git
This is for absolute beginners, if you are a experienced programmer this is not for you but for students that I teach or coach, who don’t use version control or not familiar with some git commands like merging or branching. Version Control is a core “hard skill” that is required to become a software developer,…