SVPMA - Best Practices in Product Mgmt for V1 Products w/ Dan Olsen, YourVersion June 2, 2010

Organization: SVPMA - Silicon Valley Product Management Association
Topic: Best Practices in Product Management for V1 Products
Speaker: Dan Olsen, CEO, YourVersion
Date: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Location: Network Meeting Center at the TechMart - 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara
Cost: Free for Members. $30 for pre-registered Non-Members. $40 at the door.
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Presentation Summary:
Creating a brand new V1 product from scratch has unique challenges compared to making improvements to an existing product. How do you pick the best product direction for V1? How and when do you decide to make course corrections? How do you know when V1 is good enough to launch? Come learn best practices in V1 Product Management including: understanding customer needs, problem space vs. solution space, prioritization, user interface design principles, usability testing, validating your product with customers, and metrics.

Speaker:
Dan Olsen is CEO and founder of YourVersion http://www.yourversion.com, a real-time discovery engine that delivers "Pandora for your real-time web content", bringing you the latest relevant content tailored to your specific interests. YourVersion launched at TechCrunch50 in September 2009, where it won the People's Choice Award. Dan has 18 years of high-tech experience with deep expertise in product management and marketing. Dan worked at Intuit for 5 years where he led product management for Quicken and launched an online brokerage. He also led product management at Friendster. Before starting YourVersion, Dan consulted to many startups, including Box.net, YouSendIt, MoodLogic, Angie's List, Xing, and Epocrates. He has spoken at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo, Startonomics, the Facebook Fund's Incubator, and Stanford. Dan holds a BSEE from Northwestern, an MSIE from Virginia Tech, and an MBA from Stanford.

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