The quality of a product is largely dependent on the expertise and capabilities of the team behind it. As a musician, I’ve experienced this first-hand when playing in bands and with orchestras. Delivering a great outcome for us took a complete team effort, with a variety of experts bringing their own unique talents to the stage while understanding how their role fit into the bigger picture. As a product leader at Messenger, I’ve realized there’s a lot we can learn from this approach....

We were given some review samples of a new technology called ‘paper’ earlier this week. Paper is a natural material that can be produced in bulk, relatively cheap, and some people think it will replace e-readers such as the iPad and Kindle. This week we read some articles and even a book using this innovative new material to find out if paper is really a viable technology and a possible replacement for electronic book readers, or e-readers....

One of the hottest trends in the startup ecosystem is product-led growth (PLG). The PLG approach to introducing a solution to the market is focused on the end-user. Initially, many B2B founders viewed PLG as more of a go-to-market motion where providing a freemium offering would enable a company to be product-led. However, this is not enough. End-users aren’t simply the people whouse the product and decide whether to recommend it to the organization....

Producteev, the multi-platform task management platform that has been growing rapidly as it approaches its one year launch anniversary in June, has launched new functionality that providestwo-way syncwithGoogle Tasksand Outlook Tasks. This integration paves the way for even greater user adoption for Producteev, as many users consider the ability to create tasks from their email clients that sync with their task manager to be an essential feature. Producteev is the first task manager to publicly release two-way integration using the Google Tasks API....

It’s a week full of posts onhow to be productivearound here at TNW. When the news came out this past weekend that it’s what we’d be doing, I have to admit that I squirmed a little bit. I loathe productivity apps. I find that, by and large, I spend much more time fooling with them than I manage to get back by using them. So it is with this in mind that I’m going to spend a few words explaining how I manage to stay afloat, complete with whatever few apps that I do use in order to make it happen....