Fortune’s Path: the Blog
Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.
Experience is Not the Same Thing as Trust
Writer and actor Mary Frances Noser reflects on trusting ourselves enough to earn the trust of others, no matter our formal experience.
Not All Monopolies Are Bad
Not all monopolies are bad. If your business does not abuse its power, it should strive to build a monopoly because competition kills profits.
How to Price a SaaS Product
Tom gives a mini-lesson on the strategy behind SaaS pricing.
Price should be based on perceived value, and perceptions are based on emotions. You still need a rational, defensible theory about the value of your product. Know your primary objective when pricing your product: acquire users, generate revenue, generate profit, or capture market share. Pick one.
The Tyranny of Genius: How the Idea of Individual Genius Holds us Back
The model of the individual genius does not encourage great thinking. It holds us back from community, discourages risk taking, and obscures truth. Thinking is a group activity.
There is no such thing as a completely original thought. Individuals can have insights, but groups of people create works of genius. Our approach to thinking and the manner in which we implement our ideas is what helps genius flourish.
Seven Signs of a Healthy Product
Want to become a beloved product? Look past market/fit to know if you have a healthy product that's ready to grow.
Katie Reilly: Winning is When all Boats Rise
Are product managers like general contractors? Is business a good tool to make the world a better place? And how is running a start-up like parenting? These are some of the questions Tom asks Katie Reilly, a Partner with TechCXO, in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.
Benevolent Capitalists
Effective Altruism (EA), a trendy topic among technologists, advocates removing personal passions from giving decisions and relying on pure logic. We thought it would be interesting to look at the benevolent capitalists of the past and present to see how their excess capital shapes the world.
Robert Carroll: Interface Design and Asking, "What do you want to achieve?"
Robert Carroll, leader of award winning product and marketing teams and a successful entrepreneur, talks about the differences between managing physical products and software, interface design, and why it's important to know what you want to achieve when you start a business, in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.
What to Do About American Capitalism
We use the results of our survey on generational attitudes about the America economic system as a starting point to discuss what to do about American capitalism from a product management point of view.
What You're Reading: Results from our Summer Reading Survey
This summer, Fortune’s Path sent a survey to all of its newsletter subscribers and LinkedIn followers. We had seen reports that Americans are reading more than ever, but reading fewer books. We wondered, what, then, were they reading, and how were they accessing the content?