About

I'm currently a Senior Product Manager at Skyscanner. Prior to this I was a Senior PM Sat Staker and Softr and Lead Product Manager at Founder & Lightning - a startup studio creating some of London's most exciting tech startups. I work with founders and early-stage startups helping them bring their ideas to life. In my spare time, I create and experiment with small online bootstrapped businesses. Some of which have been acquired.

Experience

fiilo Acquired

fiilo is a minimalist, contemporary lifestyle brand - producing uniquely crafted environmentally conscious products using the latest 3D printing technology. fiilo was acquired in 2016 by an American buyer.

NoCode Acquired

NoCode.tech was originally created as a side project in October 2016, with the vision to empower and inspire non-technical entrepreneurs and makers! In September 2018 the site was acquired by Concrete Capital and is now been acquired by Stacker (where I work as a PM).

Links from Sam

Comprehensive list of 'Smoke Test' techniques

A definitive list of modern, alternative 'Smoke Test' techniques to help test early signs of desirability with your target market.

Creating a new coffee brand like a software product

Lean and Agile principles aren't just adopted by software products and their teams - in fact, they started life in manufacturing in the 1930's by Toyota. This new coffee brand is bringing it back.

It's time to create a Product Lab. Here's why.

How can we create new features and improvements to our products whilst also balancing the trade-offs of user experience and foster a community? In this post, I'm going to be discussing a new approach I've been watching closely.

Start with Problem Validation, NOT Solution Validation

There is a difference between having an idea and validating an idea. Validation is the first step in moving towards learning more about the problem.

5.0

McKenna D

Sam is great and couldn't be happier to be working with him. He's helpful, a great listener, and understanding of the struggles I'm having without making my questions seem silly or unfounded. All the tools he gives me as well are phenomenal learning sources. This is a completely new side of things for me and idk what I would do without his guidance!

Zuzana

Sam gave me great advice on how to proceed with my idea validation. He's patient with explaining the steps/strategy to somebody who has no prior experience with this type of entrepreneurial journey :)

McKenna D

This was my first meeting with Sam and he was great! He gave tons of great advice and really look forward to partnering with him.