Master Chef Pankaj Bhadouria Visits TOSV

Celebrity Mom & Master Chef Pankaj Bhadouria Visits TOSV

The Office of Silicon Valley was lucky enough to have Master Chef Pankaj Bhadouria as a guest in April. Please take the time to check out the Silliconeer’s article about the Celebrity mom here!

Coworking Spaces Get Serious

Coworking spaces get serious about curation

The number of freelancers is on the rise with estimates of their eventual numbers ranging from more than 50 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020 to 1.3 billion worldwide by 2015. All of these mobile workers obviously have to set up shop somewhere. Luckily, the coworking movement is growing at a breezy pace as well, but will supply of workplaces keep pace with demand so that finding a space remains relatively straightforward?

Read more here!

A TOSV Advisor is Holding a Local Workshop!

Marty Cagan, TOSV’s Product Strategy Adviser is Holding a Workshop

 

What is it?

Joint Product Owner Workshop for Product Managers, Product Designers and Product Architects

When is it?

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM - Friday, June 29, 2012 at 5:30 PM (PT)

Where is it?

5201 Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara, CA 95054

Who is instructing?

Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton of Silicon Valley Product Group


From Marty Cagan, with Silicon Valley Product Group and TOSV:

For several years I have held occasional public workshops where I share best practices in Product, but I have always explained to the attendees that my session is not a substitute for getting trained on Agile / Scrum.  I typically go on to recommend that people be sure to get trained by one of the very few Agile trainers that truly understand consumer internet product companies (rather than the much more prevalent custom and IT software environments). 

My favorite such trainer is Jeff Patton.  While Jeff is one of the original Agile pioneers, he has established a very successful and specialized practice where he focuses on product managers and product designers that care not only about how to use Agile to build products faster, but to actually build better products faster.

I’ve been friends with Jeff for several years, and have introduced him in to many of the companies I work with.  Recently, we’ve decided to do an experiment together.  This summer, we’ll be holding a special, combined, 3-day public workshop (one in Silicon Valley and one in Europe). 

This workshop is specifically designed for Product Managers, Product Designers and Product Architects from Consumer Internet Product companies that want to dive very deep into the Product Owner role and learn the leading edge practices from Lean Startups, Lean UX, Agile, Customer Development, Product Discovery, Design Thinking and Story Mapping, as well as techniques and practices from the very best consumer internet product companies in the world.

The workshop includes the CSPO Product Owner Certification, but the content goes well beyond Agile to encompass the end to end product process from portfolio management to customer discovery to product discovery to product delivery.

It will be an intense three days, but our intention is to provide the single best learning opportunity in the world for aspiring product leaders.

To register, click here!

 

Google Buys Motorola Mobility

The government clears Google’s purchase of Motorola.

In decisions that largely clear a path for the biggest acquisition in Google’s (GOOG) history, European and U.S. regulators Monday approved the Internet giant’s purchase of Motorola Mobility, a deal that would transform Google into a maker of both mobile hardware and software like its rivals Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft.

The twin approvals by the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission are a key milestone toward finalizing the $12.5 billion purchase, an investment by Google that emphasizes the Web’s accelerating shift to mobile devices.

“It goes to show just how important mobile is to Google going forward,” said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with Gartner. “This is a major strategic bet that they are making.”

The deal, which still needs approval from regulators in China, Taiwan and Israel, would not only give Google control of an important maker of smartphones, tablets and TV set-top boxes, but also access to Motorola’s war chest of more than 17,000 patents.

In another decision Monday, the Justice Department also signed off on a series of patent purchases by Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion from Nortel

OpenSky Featured in Fast Company

One of our friends, OpenSky, was named one of The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company!

OpenSky was named the 49th Most Innovative Company in the World by Fast Company Magazine! Check them out in the March issue of Fast Company - on stands today!


From Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, Interior Designer and OpenSky Curator:

The thing I think is so exciting about OpenSky is that all of the followers get to experience things that I am excited about at that moment. [It’s] an amazing platform where we can instantly give you the best of the best and share the things that I love the most.

 

 

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