Episode VI: Product Market Fit w/ Ubek Ergashev of machineQ

11/12/18 • 29 min

Product market fit is at the heart of every product decision, from features to architecture. But how can you find market fit in today's constantly shifting tech landscape? We spoke with Ubek Ergashev of Comcast's machineQ IoT platform about making the pivot from infrastructure to product company, the state of IoT, and how to make technology selections that won't come back to haunt you.

About machineQ:

machineQ is an enterprise-grade IoT platform that helps businesses build, manage, and scale their own IoT networks and solutions. Based in Philadelphia and incubated out of Comcast, machineQ delivers best-in-class LoRa®-based hardware, enterprise grade software, and IoT expertise that speeds up innovation and reduces time to market.

About Ubek:

Ubek Ergashev is a Product Manager for machineQ. Over the course of the last twelve months he’s led the effort to build the machineQ ecommerce store and mobile app, which will enable customers to purchase machineQ’s IoT hardware products like gateways and sensors, and make it simple and easy to get them up and running for their business.

Produced by Martin R. Schneider. Music by Prox-C and Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Produced by Martin R. Schneider. Music by Prox-C and Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Episode V: Multi-Product Strategy w/ Brian Glick of Chain.io

Managing one product is hard enough. What do you do when it's time to add more? On this episode, we speak with Brian Glick of Chain.io about adopting a multi-product strategy, understanding customer value across multiple products, differentiating company brand from product brand, and what product managers can learn from sales teams.

About Chain.io:

Through its cloud execution platform, Chain.io helps medium and large enterprises integrate all the systems components that it takes to keep the global supply chain moving. Connecting ocean carriers, customs brokers, retailers, truckers, and warehouses, just to name a few, Chain.io does connects the hundreds of systems that have to coordinate behind the scenes for every shipment, every day.

About Brian:

During two decades in global logistics, Brian has helped major retail and apparel companies develop and integrate global supply chain management systems spanning tens of thousands of vendors and partners across the globe. In 2010, Brian founded Aspect 9, which delivered trade compliance software to major companies with worldwide operations. Brian sold Aspect 9 to Vandegrift Forwarding, where he remained until 2017 when he founded Chain.io.

Produced by Martin R. Schneider. Music by Prox-C and The Custodian of Records.

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Episode VII: Mass Transit Innovation w/ Erik Johanson of SEPTA

Innovation in the public sector comes with a whole new set of challenges. We spoke with Erik Johanson, director of innovation at SEPTA, about the ins and outs of driving innovative thinking, managing change, and finding clever solutions to budgetary constraints while meeting the daily transportation needs of 1.5 million Philadelphians.

About SEPTA:

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority – better known to Philly locals as SEPTA – provides regional mass transit for the entire Philadelphia area and operates a network of trolleys, busses, subways, and commuter rail.

About Erik:

Erik is the Director of Innovation for SEPTA. He heads up the organization's innovation team, which focuses on finding new ways to improve the agency’s operations and further its core mission of meetings the daily transportation needs of the city’s 1.5 million residents.

Produced by Martin R. Schneider. Music by Prox-C