Breaking Glass by Rishi Dean

Here is a selection of presentations I’ve given, along with pointers to the relevant posts. I try to keep my Slideshare profile updated, as best I can, with alternate versions of these decks.

Finding Product / Market Fit

Originally I put this framework together to provide a “meta” framework for understanding what tool / methodology was right for your given situation, in order to achieve product / market fit. There are so many posts / tweets / pundits online, but knowing which techniques to employ at which time is what this “Product Market Matrix is used for (see the blog post here. I’ve given this talk quite a lot, so there are many different variants of this deck floating around the interwebs.

Designing and Building Startup Culture

This is a topic I’m particularly passionate about, in that a company’s culture has dramatic impact on the people it attracts, its structure, and how it goes about developing products. Startups have the unique blessing of starting from “zero”, but the challenge of dealing with many external and internal factors that other companies don’t need to deal with. I propose a simple framework founders can use for managing these issues in this post , with another post that dives deeper into some academic underpinnings of that model. Again, there are a few variations of this presentation out there which are tuned to startup and non-startup audiences.

The Next Chapter in Online Advertising: Word-of-mouth-at-scale (WOMAS)

I gave this talk to a group of MBA students at Cornell University’s Johnson School in a class called “Current Topics in Marketing”. This walks through the evolution of online advertising and how we got to the new chapter, brought about due to the rise of Facebook: “word of mouth at-scale”. We then explore what that means, how it works, and leave with a couple of examples. Special thanks to the folks at Nanigans for all the slides.

Prototyping

This was put together to illustrate the process we went through for my company Lime Design, in developing our flagship product for our Lime Tree Cove brand, called The Barmaid. The original blog post can be found here.

Tips for non-product startup executives

I developed this deck, to present to a set of new startup CEOs, who would be looking to build out a “product” organization, and helping them to understand what to look for. The post goes into a little more detail than can be conveyed in the slides…the audience was a bunch of nerds, so you’ll see that reflected in the deck.