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Kunal Punjabi

San Francisco Bay Area

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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Entrepreneurship Product Design User Research Start-ups Product Management User Interface Design Software Engineering Analytics Product launch Usability

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Growth Tactics or "Growth Hacking"

You 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?

User Experience and Usability

How 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.

Idea Validation

Maybe 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.

Building New Products

Maybe 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.

Prioritization and Roadmap Planning

Maybe 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.

Product Launch Strategies

Okay, so you're gearing up for your big launch. How do you make sure it's a success?

How 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?

Hiring and Working With Remote Teams

Remote 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?

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Kunal Punjabi answered

What are three of your top favorite entrepreneur posts of all time?

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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Entrepreneurship

Start-ups

Leadership

Kunal Punjabi answered

Can you help me understand current best practices in getting users to sign up for/ open an account on a website?

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.

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User Interface Design

User Interaction

Web Design & Development

Kunal Punjabi answered

Would you buy a smart luggage scale that saves you money, by keeping track of your luggage's weight and location?

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

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Pitching Ideas

Hardware

Travel Planning

Kunal Punjabi answered

Do I need a prototype to sell my app idea?

You might find this useful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtvABT9ELos

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Business Strategy

Reviews

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.

Lawrence Clingman Source: Clarity

Kunal is such an insightful and knowledgeable mentor. He gave me some really practical suggestions about my product pitch. Will really recommend to everyone that are looking for PM career.

Ti Guo Source: Clarity

Kunal will give you expert and honest advice on any topic, from idea validation to UI/UX.

Sam Rizzi Source: Clarity

Kunal 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!

Vlad Ciurca Source: Clarity

Kunal 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.

Ramin Naimi Source: LinkedIn

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.

Betty B Elrod Source: LinkedIn

Kunal 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.

Ankesh Kumar Source: LinkedIn

Member since August 2013