Product Management Consultant and Author
Dan Olsen is a product management consultant, speaker, and author of The Lean Product Playbook, a practical guide to building products that customers love. He has advised companies including Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Uber on product strategy and innovation.
by Dan Olsen
Olsen provides a repeatable six-step process for achieving product-market fit. The framework helps teams identify underserved needs, define an MVP, and iterate toward a product customers actually want.
The books Dan Olsen references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Eric Ries
Ries argues most startups fail by building products nobody wants. The solution: treat your business as an experiment, measure validated learning, and pivot before you run out of cash.
by Geoffrey Moore
Moore identifies the dangerous gap between early adopters and the mainstream market that kills most tech products. Crossing this chasm requires focusing on a single beachhead segment and dominating it completely.
by Don Norman
Norman reveals why badly designed objects frustrate us and how good design makes correct use intuitive. The principles, affordances, feedback, constraints, apply far beyond physical products.
by Clayton Christensen
Christensen explains why successful companies fail: they rationally ignore disruptive innovations that initially serve small, unprofitable markets, until those markets overtake them entirely.
Who Dan draws from, and who draws from Dan — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.