Product leader for technology companies and occasional podcaster.

London, UK
New blog post from me: "A really rough guide to creating and validating a new product" - acottrell.com/general/rough-… #product #startup
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“Treat chat like a sauna — stay a while but then get out.” — Interesting thoughts on group chat from @jasonfried m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-…
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Good read. "Projects and Companies" by @sama #startup pocket.co/soY_rl
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"Next time you have an idea and it gets rejected, I want you to think of these emails" pocket.co/sos1QU
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Andreessen: "It made sense in the LP and CD era to put eight or 10 or 12 or 15 songs on a disc" buff.ly/1CzL2XQ cc: @steeveage
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Interesting article: Big vs. Small Product Owner: romanpichler.com/blog/big-pr… (for different stages of product maturity) #product
Enjoyed this: parent company of Match.com and OKCupid funding it’s own #disruption with Tinder: nbr.co.nz/article/why-tinder…
A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management in scaling #startups pocket.co/sofBoW - good read
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Aaron Cottrell retweeted
For Startups, Knowledge is a Commodity but Insights are Valuable buff.ly/1KUdd4J by @hunterwalk
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“Mint focused on making the user do almost no work at all” #product #startup pocket.co/sooUNS
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"Trust your gut as much (or more) than the numbers. Figure out what matters and build something good.” medium.com/@ev/a-mile-wide-a… - Refreshing.
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Congrats to @azeem and all the @PeerIndex crew past and present on being acquired by Brandwatch.
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@cphilippsen ah, you need to create at least one first to see the option, here’s a quick demo: cloud.githubusercontent.com/…
@cphilippsen Yes, you can add up to 2 custom ticket fields to the contact form, more info in the article I shared in the last tweet
@cphilippsen Let me know if that works
@cphilippsen Hi Christian, the widget looks at the end-user’s browser header or you can force it, more info: support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us…
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Timeless example of setting a vision & how you plan to achieve it - Jeff Bezos’s 1997 letter to shareholders: media.corporate-ir.net/media…