Personal details

Josh M. - Remote

Josh M.

Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Summary

In addition to freelancing to help engineers with best practices, I am the CEO of Mindbox Studios, where I facilitates the process of innovation with early-stage startups and with larger organizations in transition. My team and I team help get new ventures to market, innovate on business models, and establish a culture that supports intrapreneurship. I spend my free time as a startup ecosystem builder, connecting founders and funders in the Sacramento area; I am an unabashed nerd who considers science and philosophy textbooks “brain candy”; and I can usually be found wearing unusually colourful shoes.

Work Experience

CEO
Mindbox Studios | Oct 2017 - Present
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Product and Lean Startup Consultant
N/A | Aug 2011 - Oct 2017
Provide product management and marketing strategy services, focusing on passionate B2C and B2B software-as-a-service startups. - Strategy: Decrease risk by accurately identifying the minimum viable product that reflects the core value proposition. Provide well-thought-out product ideas and features that maximize revenue. Build coalitions around roadmaps to ensure consensus and instill passion. Enrich product discussions by treating user experience as a first-class citizen - never as an afterthought to a feature. - Product Development: Coordinate and motivate diverse groups of designers, engineers, and stakeholders to generate mockups and rapidly iterate on prototypes. Draft unified specs actionable to marketing, sales, and engineering teams. Manage and mentor remote engineering teams to build and ship memorable experiences. - Developer Training: Lead classes to train developers in the technologies that build great SaaS products. Mentor junior and intermediate developers in the principles and best practices that lead to comprehensible, scalable code. - Marketing: Develop go-to-market strategies and generate metrics that encourage continuous assessment. Galvanize customer engagement through tightly-connected marketing initiatives that hit multiple channels. - Closing the Loop: Cultivate environments for rapid measurement and iteration. Incorporate multivariate/split testing, behavioural analytics, and user feedback to stimulate generation of testable hypotheses. Performance Highlights - Propelled sales 15% year-on-year through close management of multi-channel marketing initiatives. - Managed the definition and development of a competition management app with a two-sided market. - Increased sales and drove process improvements by overseeing creation of a B2C online sales platform. - Spearheaded a brand relaunch, leading to an order-of-magnitude increase in media reach and customer engagement.