Niklas Stephenson

AI is the biggest shift in B2B software since SaaS – bigger and faster than anything we’ve experienced before. 2 Unlike earlier platform shifts (mainframes to personal computers, on-prem to SaaS, mobile, and so on), AI isn’t about how we deliver software.

Starting a company from zero is a daunting task; you need vision, insights, a blue ocean idea (not), distribution, an audience, and the list goes on, but there is a simpler way.

I am done with blue ocean, and most bootstrapping founders should be too.

Every idea for a company needs two potentials: a starting product and a direction that can last a decade.

Multiple times in my roles as a product leader and in my coaching of other leaders, I have met the expectations of The Product Vision, the one document that should be the north star of our company, the document that we expect to show us a path towards a f…

When writing about product leadership, it’s easy to write about the process—the stuff that is easy to visualise and express.

I am often asked about when I am going to start a startup again and why the hell I am working for someone else instead of myself, and I know that a lot of former founders are getting asked the same when applying for jobs, heck even getting rejected due to…

For the last year, I have worked at AutoUncle, which runs four-day workweeks, and I wanted to share my reflections a year in.

In Shape Up, a common mistake is to shape only when doing cooldown.

Twitter has blown up over the last few days after Paul Graham released his post on Founder Mode, which refers to a private talk that Brian Chesky, the founder of AirBNB, did at a Y Combinator dinner.

Junior product managers are lost.

Shape Up is a fantastic framework for expressing opportunities and deciding what bets you want to place.

Shape Up by Basecamp is an awesome, practical, and pragmatic introduction to the process surrounding product management.

Lately, I have talked to a lot of people about the shaping process of [Shape Up](https://basecamp.com/Shape Up).

When you start a company, it quickly becomes a big part of your identity.

Yesterday I talked to a candidate who was considering applying for a developer role at Legal Monster , he could not understand why we did not apply ML/AI to solve problems.

Code should add value Everybody should be able to read the code Code should be easy to make scalable on a later stage Code should not create too many edge cases Code must be reviewed Code should not attract too much attention when running in production Co…

It's a little bit ironic to write a blog post with advice that asks you to stop taking advice, but here we go.

So how do people find you on Medium?

One thing I liked about the good old days of desktop software was that applications always created a physical file on my local desktop.

Slack seems to be the tool all companies need if they want to be a real tech company.

Last week I talked with a startup that had struck a deal with a tech company, for a percentage of the startup the tech company would build their product.

A few days ago I read a blog post about the current relevancy of Ruby on Rails, a piece of "old" technology that has been the core of all businesses I have created.

It's now a few months since I left Trustpilot to start a new company together with my great friend Søren.

Through my many years as an entrepreneur, one of the hardest things to deal with is the constant flow of thoughts.

A while ago, an old friend asked me, “What do great product managers do?”

The other day, one of our product managers at Trustpilot came to me with a question: "Should we build what our sales team is asking for?"

At Trustpilot, we are 550+ people across 7 different offices all over the world.

Long live the roadmap.

Its hard to describe our full process at Trustpilot in an easy to read blog post, it would take words enough to write a full book, not because it's complicated, but because it's different.

I often talk with startups and product managers from larger companies about how we work, how they work and how we would all love to work.

Okay, todays post is basic product mangement, but still a tool we often use to quickly take decisions on what features we should work on next.

I often mentor early-stage start-ups on how to validate, test and pitch their ideas.

Throughout my career I have always been involved with product management in one way or another.

When you as a product manager is working on a business problem there are so many factors to consider that it some times can be hard to get a holistic view of what the problem is, what solutions are out there and how its going to impact your business.

We do a lot of user interviews at Trustpilot.

We have all heard about the Build, Measure, Learn loop from Lean Startup.