Software Eats Money
Analysis of gold as a product
Gold is far more complicated and entrenched in the world than it might seem. Gold is money , and so much more.
Andy Jagoe
Angel Investor and Product Leader ♦ FinTech, Messaging, Search, AI ♦ Turnaround (Sold to eBay) ♦ Founder (Sold to Skype)
Software Eats Money
The future of finance is self-driving money
What self-driving money is, and why it's coming to everyone.
Software Eats Money
Will San Francisco replace New York as financial capital?
From 2017-2019, the Bay Area produced almost three times as many finance startups funded by top VCs as NYC, and these companies raised almost four times as much money.
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Top VCs triple bets on finance startups in 2019
What this signals for investors and the financial services industry Investment by top VCs [https://andyjagoe.com/what-are-the-worlds-best-venture-capital-firms/] in finance startups is exploding, growing exponentially from $500 million in 2012 to more than $7 billion for 2019. And it’s not just the dollar amount that has increased—the absolute
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What are the world's best venture capital firms?
We build a basket of "top" VCs we'll use to represent "smart money" Coming up with a list of the world’s best venture capital firms is not easy. For one, the life of most funds is 10 years. And funds typically exhibit a
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Robinhood is like Google for Financial Services
Robinhood announced recently that it would be raising a new funding round of $350M led by DST Global on a $5.6B valuation [https://www.wsj.com/articles/robinhoods-valuation-soars-above-5-billion-1521141033] . They also announced that Josh Elman, a general partner from Greylock, would be joining as VP Product [https://techcrunch.com/2018/
Product Management
Do You know Who’s Killing Your Word of Mouth?
There are some products people can’t stop talking about. There are other products that no one notices. They are invisible. Why is that? People talk about Apple’s products for months before they’re launched. They even speculate on unannounced products that Apple might create. When Apple launches a
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5 Things Lady Gaga Can Teach Us About Creating a Remarkable Product
Have you ever worked for months on a product that achieved no success? I know I have. And it’s incredibly frustrating. What does it take to really succeed? To build a product that is truly remarkable? A product with raving fans? A product with 25,000,000 Twitter followers
Product Management
The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions
Great product managers score off the charts in listening, learning, leading, analyzing, anticipating and re-imagining. Among other things [http://www.svproduct.com/the-product-manager-contribution/]. How do you interview for that? Get it wrong and your new hire might be shifting your business into neutral. Or worse yet, reverse. Problem is, there
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Warning: Don’t Hire a Product Manager Without These Key Leadership Skills
This post is part of The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions [https://andyjagoe.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-product-manager-interview-questions/] series. Steve Jobs said that “no matter how smart you are, to be successful you need a team of great people [http://youtu.be/WRoHtUjIkmY?t=1m7s]“. Do you surround yourself with great
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What Everybody Ought To Know About The Product Manager Case Interview
This post is part of The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions [https://andyjagoe.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-product-manager-interview-questions/] series. What does it take to be the best? The best product strategist? The best product designer? The best technical innovator? The best product manager? Malcolm Gladwell would tell you it takes 10,
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Do Your Product Manager Interview Questions Always Get The Real Story?
This post is part of The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions [https://andyjagoe.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-product-manager-interview-questions/] series. Okay, show of hands. Who else is tired of resumes that overstate accomplishments? And as if overstatements aren’t bad enough—don’t forget about the blatant lies found on the resumes