HR & Leadership
Are Older Founders Better? Only If They Have This Attribute
Forty-five is an age of reckoning in the tech industry. That’s the age in which prospects for tech workers begin...
by Scott Maxwell
Product
There are two paths to product led growth. One is harder and possibly more effective.
“Remarkable” is an overused word that has come to mean “really great.” But as marketing guru Seth Godin has noted,...
by Scott Maxwell
HR & Leadership
The Best Way to Determine Market Need is Also the Most Labor-Intensive
A clever Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker article a few years ago looked at why the ketchup segment was so dull....
by Scott Maxwell
HR & Leadership
Foosball Won’t Solve Your Talent Problem
Startups like to think of themselves as agile innovators, but when it comes to talent acquisition, most indulge in lazy...
by Scott Maxwell
Product
Don’t Be Afraid of E-Voting
In 2000, cell phones were only good for placing calls and texting. No one knew what cloud computing was. Artificial...
by Scott Maxwell
Product
Product Led Growth: The Secret Behind Some of Today’s Fastest Growing SaaS Companies
We talk about product led growth (PLG) a lot at OpenView, and there’s a reason for that. Many of today’s...
by Scott Maxwell
Product
AI is a Game Changer, But Not When It Comes to Business Fundamentals
Back in the ‘90s when digital media was taking off, no one had really figured out how to make any...
by Scott Maxwell
Product
Here’s a Radical Idea: Raise Your Prices
From the early days of computing, there has been a subset of users who think that software should be free....
by Scott Maxwell
Market Research
The end of SaaS? Not so fast.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared on Inc. here. Declaring the end of something -- whether it's brick-and-mortar retail or Facebook...
by Scott Maxwell