Failure in Product Management is common. A recent study conducted by George Castellion and Stephen K. Markham found that 39% of software products fail. That’s close to 1 in 3. Failure should be welcomed. If you don’t fail, you are simply not moving fast enough. When products fail, taking the…

If you are a product driven company, hiring the right Product Manager can make or break your company. It can 10x the velocity of your engineering team or grind them to a halt. It can help ship incredibly delightful features or complex interfaces that you can’t sell. It can help…

I recently was discussing with my partner the role that hard work has played in our lives. We had worked hard all throughout our lives to get to a point of mild success. Yet, through the conversation, it became clear that while I attributed my success to hard work, she…

Software is eating the world. The SaaS (Software As a Service) market is growing by 10% annually, expected to reach $157 billion in 2020. Today, teams are working exclusively in software applications to be more productive and grow their businesses faster. This is especially true for areas where the ROI…

Expense reports are the worst. We all know this — and many are still forced to submit them. Finance teams often leverage the fact that employees hate filing expense reports in order to prevent reimbursements. After all, if filing expenses was fun, every employee would be doing it, right? This…

FinTech lending today leverages data, technology, machine learning, and digital marketing to better target, underwrite, and serve customers. These capabilities are now table-stakes. A new wave is coming: FinTech Lending 2.0. These FinTechs focus on finding innovative ways to de-risk borrowers to offer cheaper and more customized products. …

Myanmar is in a boom. While seven years ago, financial services were largely unused, today many consumers use their smartphone to make payments. Over the course of only a few years, over 40 million Myanmar people have come online. From no banks to digital currencies, from no computers to smartphones…

How should regulators and investors determine whether a lender is “inclusive” or “predatory”? Should regulators limit the interest rate lenders can charge? What should investors look for when making socially conscious decisions? Digital credit options for the underbanked around the world are now more accessible than ever, but for a…

Define your Balance Scorecard Defining, tracking and reporting on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a critical process to review the health of a business. One common method to do so is the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) which organizes KPIs across 4 focus areas: Financial: How do our shareholders see us? This perspective views organizational financial…