Neil Kulkarni

AMA: Cisco Director of Product Management, Neil Kulkarni on Building 0-1 Products

June 3 @ 9:00AM PT
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How do you get inspiration for product design when it comes to designing a new product?
After gathering all the requirements and having great insights into users pinpoints, studied competitors, and market trends, How do you then get the inspiration for design layout before talking to your designer to translate all of this into an intuitive user experience
What is your first step in developing a 0-1 product?
I haven't heard the phrase 0-1 products before and would love to learn more about it.
How do you validate you have problem <> solution fit?
Under what circumstances is it worthwhile to pursue a 0-1 product that can be easily duplicated by a large competitor?
Often times, early product start out as features. My worry is that a competitor would just copy us and then wipe us out.
At what point is a solution ready to be shipped?
How do you go about brainstorming the right solutions in terms of coming up with user experience to address the validated problems to be solved for users
How and where do you get inspiration to determine how and what types of user experience to be built and fleshing this our in your user stories while writing PRD
What is the best way to get feedback to validate problems?
I subscribe to the Ried Hoffman quote - “If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late.” How do you actually live this out in a larger company where there is internal anxiety?
How do you project revenue for a product that hasn’t been shipped yet? Our leadership team wants to understand how fast it will grow.
How do you know when to invest in a second product and become a multi-product company vs innovating on your existing product?
Has working remotely impacted your ability to deliver products?
How do you prioritize various validated problems?
How do you know if you have validated the problem space enough to start dedicating engineering resources to building out the product?