Grasshopper Herder
Personal blog covering innovation strategy, lean startup, experimentation, and the craft of running product and innovation programs. Long-running, irregular, opinionated.
Archive
Archived projects — experiments and initiatives that are no longer active but remain reachable for reference or research.
Archived projects
Office Hours for Early-Stage Founders
Tes
Worked with the Head of Product to embed lean ways of working into the product organization.
Credit Sesame
Ongoing consulting and coaching for product teams on lean startup, metrics, organization, and product management.
Fujitsu
Coached an innovation team within Fujitsu to improve entrepreneurial skill sets on lean startup, agile, and design thinking. Team members went on to train others.
StumbleUpon
Worked with the product and growth teams to drive experimentation.
KissMobs
A Startup Weekend project; to the best of my knowledge, the only one that ended the weekend cash flow positive.
MonkeyMake.it
An experiment for the LUXr.co program with Janice Fraser.
MonkeyPolitic.com
An experiment in the media—can the crowd tell which news articles are politically biased?
NinjaEquation.com
An equation to fully explain the effect of hiring rock stars and ninjas for your startup. Creator and evangelist.
WordPress Plugins
TweetHerder highlights phrases in posts as one-click tweet buttons; AdHerder is a WordPress plugin for A/B testing ads. Both developed for my blog.