Sell before building: Key Patterns for getting Corporate MVP’s unstuck. By Chu Nnodu on April 16, 2025 — 2 mins read Have you ever been involved in a corporate project to bring a new digital product to the world? How did it go? Corporate MVP’s tend to easily get stuck in a version of the product death cycle coined by David Bland where you prioritize and build features that no one buys. Here are some tell-tale... More
great thinking, great product By Chu Nnodu on November 22, 2023 — 1 min read tl;dr this could really be a post about my nice new backpack . Growing up in Lagos in the 90’s, I remember a television ad for Toyota that ended with a Japanese voice saying “yoi shinai, yoi kangai – good thinking, good product”. That slogan stuck. Toyota cars are generally good products. Good products get the job... More
Table Stakes: Should Twitter have an End of The Year Round-up? By Chu Nnodu on January 13, 2021 — 1 min read When I saw people tweet their 2020 recaps from Spotify and Apple Music, I wondered if Twitter’s product team observed this cross-platform sharing, and what implementing something similar with already existing data assets would look like. Maybe an End of the Year report? With consumer technology we often see once unique features quickly become the minimum offering needed to meet... More
