Craig Minoff is an adventurer, startup leader, and strategic consultant turned product thinker who has paired a high horsepower intellect with mentorship to shape his thinking around the future of on-demand living. Today, he serves as the VP Product Management & Company Operations at flexible living accommodations growth stage startup Kasa.
Vizit is the world’s leading content effectiveness platform, enabling digital leaders, designers, and marketers around the world to view and optimize their digital content through their audience’s eyes in real time. Powered by patented intuitive AI technology, Vizit provides an easy to use software platform that helps teams deliver breakthrough digital content that stands out, delights customers, and sells more products, delivering the essential infrastructure to achieve content excellence at scale. Vizit is relied upon by the world’s most iconic brands, retailers, and agencies in over 15 countries, including Mars, L’Oreal, Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, and Harley-Davidson.
This article is about how a self-described “product guy” spent roughly six months quasi-leading a revenue function, having never done it before, and the lessons learned along the way.
Micah Lanier, the childhood Founder of “Micahsoft”, is an analytical Product leader who took the long way around to build his career in Product. Today he serves as a Principal Product Manager at Jump, a fan experience platform for live sporting events, where he works to unlock the value of the startup’s data for colleagues and customers alike.
Tomorrow.io is a “weather intelligence and climate adaptation” software platform for enterprises and governments. This team is on a mission to build the world’s first commercial weather radar satellite constellation to bring real time weather forecasting to the entire globe. A weather service, in a box.
Joe Kiernan is a mindfully trained consultant turned strategic product thinker. He’s building a career around re-envisioning how great consumer products operate, serving as the first VP of Product at growth stage e-commerce startup Perch.
Boswell is building software at the intersection of healthcare & social services to drive better outcomes for the healthcare system and our most at-risk patient population. This is a story about a relay race and flipping the script to get to the heart of some of America’s biggest systemic inefficiencies.
Lauren Viscariello is a legal leader who has leveraged her expertise to balance legal risks with the business objectives to help her startups succeed. As the Associate General Counsel at Candex, she is helping to build the legal & operations infrastructure for a software platform that takes the complexity out of tail spend purchasing & procurement.
Osmo is building a first-of-its-kind technology to digitize smell. If you could capture scent in the same type of way that you might take a photograph, what would you do? Would you capture the smell of your pet? Significant other? Your favorite hike? The time of autumn when all the leaves start to fall and they crumple under your footsteps for just an instant? Osmo is tackling a solution to a challenging question: if you could capture and define smell, then play it back, what are the applications?
Aaron Whittemore is a business & product leader whose career spans the public & private sector, delivering hardtech solutions that matter for customers, technologists, taxpayers, and busy consumers on the move. He currently serves as the General Manager of Mobility at Humatics, a software startup that leverages precise positioning to enable operational efficiencies for corporate & government clients.
