Filing a provisional patent
After a successful customer test, and an extensive patent search, I’m moving forward to file a provisional patent. The patent work I’ve been doing...
Behind the Glasses Blog
When the supply chain is thin
There’s just a handful of companies creating this one fundamental component, another handful of companies who’ve built shippable modules around this...
Nobody wants a hearing aid
The World Health Organization estimates that 466 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss, and yet only 17% of them actually get hearing...
Patent Potency
The next time I have to go through this process I might take it on with more zeal—it’s a great exercise for a Product person.
Testing with customers—remotely
How do you casually approach and talk to customers during lockdown, when everyone is remote? I pinged Rob Fitzpatrick, author of The Mom Test, and he...
Learning by doing
For better and for worse, when I think about developing product solutions to customer problems, my mind often works like a feasibility search—I’m...
New toys to play with
That dev kit I bought and tried to stand up was an albatross, and I finally returned it for a refund. Now I can move forward and pivot to experiments...
Listening to my hidden voice… and the real voices
Introducing my little Product Voice — Something I learned early on in my career as a Product leader was to trust the little Product Voice in my...
Hypothesis invalidated
I’ve been running (and repeating) a Lean Sprint designed to address a top-of-mind business risk, which I wrote as: I don’t have the skills to work...
Remind me why
Are you trying to prove something to yourself, or are you trying to test a concept? I thought I had set out on this dev kit work because I wanted to...