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MenuKunal Punjabi Entrepreneurial Product Leader and Startup Advisor
I am an entrepreneurial engineer-turned-product manager. Currently a Director of Product Management at Bills.com. I also have a profitable side business with a website that gets over a million pageviews per month.
Formerly, I co-founded and led Product at a start-up called EkoTable. I can help you with anything related to your product, startup or business.
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KP$2/min per minute(5)Idea ValidationKunal Punjabi • San Francisco Bay AreaCreated 12 years ago in Product & Design / OtherMaybe you have an idea but are not sure whether it'll work. Or you have several ideas and are not sure which direction to take.Kunal Punjabi San Francisco Bay Area(5)
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KP$2/min per minute(5)Building New ProductsKunal Punjabi • San Francisco Bay AreaCreated 12 years ago in Product & Design / Product ManagementMaybe you have an existing product (or products) in your business, and you want to diversify. A highly personal choice / decision, but I can help you make sure you're asking the right questions, so that you find the right answers.Kunal Punjabi San Francisco Bay Area(5)
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KP$2/min per minute(5)Prioritization and Roadmap PlanningKunal Punjabi • San Francisco Bay AreaCreated 12 years ago in Product & Design / OtherMaybe you have so many things you want to get done, that you're not sure what should be done first. I can teach you a model for priortization that has been proven to work (and one that I use personally) that you can use over and over again.Kunal Punjabi San Francisco Bay Area(5)
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KP$2/min per minute(5)Product Launch StrategiesKunal Punjabi • San Francisco Bay AreaCreated 12 years ago in Technology / MobileOkay, so you're gearing up for your big launch. How do you make sure it's a success?Kunal Punjabi San Francisco Bay Area(5)
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KP$2/min per minute(5)Growth Tactics or "Growth Hacking"Kunal Punjabi • San Francisco Bay AreaCreated 12 years ago in Sales & Marketing / Growth StrategyYou have a thriving business but you want to grow it 5x or 10x, instead of wasting time on incremental improvements. What techniques can you leverage, and what applies to your business specifically?Kunal Punjabi San Francisco Bay Area(5)
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KP$2/min per minute(5)User Experience and UsabilityKunal Punjabi • San Francisco Bay AreaCreated 12 years ago in Product & Design / User ExperienceHow do you improve the UI / UX of your app and/or website? I can teach you some tactics and point you to resources that will help.Kunal Punjabi San Francisco Bay Area(5)
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KP$2/min per minute(5)User TestingKunal Punjabi • San Francisco Bay AreaCreated 12 years ago in Technology / MobileHow do you find test subjects (or potential customers, if you prefer to call them that) on the cheap? How do you make sure they are the right people? What questions do you ask them? How do you glean the information you get out of them and use that to make an *effective* decision?Kunal Punjabi San Francisco Bay Area(5)
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KP$2/min per minute(5)Hiring and Working With Remote TeamsKunal Punjabi • San Francisco Bay AreaCreated 12 years ago in Business / Getting StartedRemote teams are known to be notoriously difficult to work with, and they can be. I've done this successfully about a dozen times, many times with multiple teams/individuals at the same time. What process and tools do I use, and how do I maintain my sanity?Kunal Punjabi San Francisco Bay Area(5)
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Kunal had a lot of really great and useful suggestions for us. He even gave me some really helpful homework to think about. We're considering working with him in the future, and really gained a lot of insight into how to think about our challenges. Highly recommended.
Source: Clarity Lawrence Clingman Feb 8, 2018Kunal shared some really interesting insights on how i should validate my idea. He was also very thoughtful and put in the effort to understand the product, and recommend what's the best way to go forward. Thanks Kunal!
Source: Clarity Vlad Ciurca Jul 10, 2014Kunal is a very dedicated and smart engineer who has an eye for product as well as good programming skills. He is hard working and persistent in seeking the solution to the problem at hand. While we were developing the various products at TinyPrints, we came across many challenges and unknowns and I always trusted Kunal to deep dive and get to the bottom of the challenge and provide an elegant solution that unblocked everyone to continue making progress. He was very helpful in jumping into a problem even though the problem wasn't along his expertise. His can-do attitude and persistence helped the company provide a great solution and product.
I would highly recommend Kunal and I know he will be successful in defining products as well as building products.
Kunal is very skilled and focused, and always committed to the task at hand. Whenever we faced a challenge, Kunal was able to deduce the source of the problem and begin to solve it immediately. Kunal is very talented technically, but also has a very creative spark that is needed when approaching new projects or solving complex issues. His greatest traits are his vision, persistence and dedication to work. I highly recommend him.
Source: LinkedIn Betty B Elrod Aug 25, 2013Kunal has a great combination of technical skill, project management skill and business knowledge. At Grouptivity he led several efforts to rework various parts of our website, share widgets and social application, which affected our bottom line. Each time, he strategized and changed his approach to fit the situation, doing what was needed to ensure that the project was successful. He brings a can-do attitude even when the task at hand is outside of his responsibilities - I remember one time when he jumped in to work with one of our contractors for creating a marketing presentation when we urgently needed one. Kunal interacted really well with our engineering, marketing and cross-functional teams. He has a strong pulse on the customer which makes him an excellent product manager, along with the ability to get to the heart of any issue, break it down, and arrive at a solution. I look forward to working with him again.
Source: LinkedIn Ankesh Kumar Aug 25, 2013

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Not to sound discouraging, but I would not buy this. It's not as painful a problem to be worth solving. Please take a look at my post on idea validation here: http://connecteev.com/validate-or-die-using-validation-to-build-the-right-product/
I hope this points you in the right direction. And, if you want to salvage the work you've done so far, you'll have to pivot - let me know or feel free to set up a call: https://clarity.fm/kunalpunjabi


Good start, but I can think of about a million things to make the website better, with user acquisition being the primary goal (I do this for a living, and needless to say, am super passionate about it, as I am about helping other entrepreneurs).
On the product side, your login flow and onboarding are just 2 of the touch points that can be improved. Also, there is an opportunity to vastly improve the user experience, in some cases with some small tweaks. I may also be able to help streamline your software development process and reduce your time to market. Just let me know or set up a call if this sounds interesting.


This is a no-BS talk on several aspects of running a company, and just so happens to be one of my favorites.
"Unlearn Your MBA" by David Heinemeier Hansson, the founder of Ruby on Rails and BaseCamp
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2351
Now, David isn't one of the best public speakers out there, but his insights are typically spot on. If you have any questions about your business, happy to help.
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