"How to Build a Great Product"

What can startup founders learn from product managers? What are ways founders can measure growth & make data-driven decisions? How to handle & prioritize customer feedback?

These are some of the questions we'll be tackling.

Panelists:

Andrew Cohen, CEO of Brainscape

Andrew Cohen is the founder & CEO of Brainscape (http://brainscape.com/), a venture-backed web & mobile education platform that helps millions of people study more efficiently. Brainscape allows students of all ages to create, share, & find great smart flashcards for any subject, & to study them using a fun, social experience that is scientifically proven to boost learning results.

Andrew also moonlights as a business analytics consultant, helping CEOs develop stronger processes for collecting, analyzing, & acting upon metrics that help their companies grow more efficiently & raise venture capital. He teaches a Business Metrics Fundamentals class at General Assembly & works with TechStars & several other accelerators to transform their startups' growth models into the language of VCs.

Andrew holds a Masters degree in Instructional Technology from Columbia University & has previously worked as an international economist (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), Wall Street eLearning curriculum developer (Satori Consulting), & government corruption fighter (World Bank). He is obsessed with efficiency & has dedicated his career to helping organizations do more with less.

Laney Caldwell, Product Manager at x.ai

LaneyCaldwell is a Product Manager atx.ai, a New York startup building a personal assistant who schedules meetings for you powered by artificial intelligence. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in Political Science.

Cody Musser, Product Lead at FounderTherapy.co

Cody Musser builds & scales product design, team leadership & operations for early stage startups. Hes Head of Design & a founding team member at Stage.gg, working on eSports data, CPO at Organize.org (http://organize.org/), trying to end the organ donation waitlist, & Product Lead at FounderTherapy.co (http://foundertherapy.co/), helping bring new products & companies to market with partners like Johns Hopkins Medical, the University of Chicago Medicine & Microsoft. Hes managed, designed, led, exited, marketed, failed, sold, acquired, hired, fired & been fired & found it all honestly quite fun.

RSVPs open 14 days before the event. Interested in being a panelist? Please email me at tom@commandiv.com