Expanding the blog from Product Management to Entrepreneurial Management

Hello ABS Readers!

As you know, I've been fairly consistently blogging about software product management for the last couple of years.  This made sense because I was the head of a 20 person product team in my last job.  As of this Monday, I've taken the entrepreneurial plunge and am now head of a one man team as I attempt to beat the odds and build an awesome software company from the ground up.  

What's potentially interesting about this endeavor is I left my corporate job without a specific killer idea in mind.  Instead, my hypothesis is that if I take the time to focus on understanding a few interesting and real customer problems, do the deep customer research, flare around a variety of ideas to fix said problems, and run lots of little experiments, at some point I'll have something to build a company around.

I was recently told by someone much older and wiser that this is unorthodox.  "Most people want to leave their current job or have a specific idea they're passionate about.  You seem like you're attracted to the the goal of creating a great company but all of the ideas you've described are merely 'experiments.' "