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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Candid Method, LLC is a seasoned team of technical experts in Product, Ops, BD, and Marketing, adept at transforming ideas into reality across diverse industries. Our niche lies in robust technical understanding, ensuring your innovation is grounded in feasibility and scalability. While you possess industry-specific expertise, our horizontal technical proficiency complements your vertical knowledge, all without the ego. This collaborative approach safeguards your brand while inspiring innovation. Beyond solutions, we instill an enduring innovation mindset in your team. Candid Method is your ally in translating vision into accomplishment, whether it's pioneering 0 to 1, refining products, rapid prototyping, scaling your product to millions of users, or performing due diligence for a potential acquisition.

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Palo Alto, California, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Over the course of nine months, Ondaka participated in the Creative Destruction Lab: Energy (CDL), a rigorous mentorship program focused on enabling deep science and technology companies to rapidly scale and focused specifically on the energy sector. We are proud to announce that Ondaka was one of only 10 companies that successfully completed this highly competitive program and can proudly say that we didn't just participate in the program but are official CDL Graduates. Thank you to the CDL-Rockies community and our world-class mentors for setting challenging objectives that refined our strategy and accelerated our success.We look forward to continuing our journey to #buildsomethingmassive as CDL Alumni.

Muxy is a SaaS platform that makes live streaming more interactive. We enable unique experiences for viewers and streamers by giving audiences direct control of game content during live streams. • Unified the product vision and go-to-market strategy, providing the foundation for the content in our developer site as well for pre and post-sales materials created by the marketing team• Achieved a 3x increase in revenue by transforming the business model from boutique development to a scalable SaaS platform• Worked directly with the board, managing stakeholders at board meetings and steering the company strategy• Emphasized the product's value and the significance of its underlying data by defining our virtuous flywheel• Established a pragmatic operations strategy and revenue forecast, accurately assessing our growth potential• Exceeded industry standard best practices by collaborating with Engineering leadership to enhance internal development and delivery processes

Burlingame, California, Us

AI-powered Augmented Reality of industrial digital twins, generating synthetic data from captured 3D models train our convolutional neural network (CNN)• Secured $2M in funding from Angel investors and VC funds, including the Alchemist Accelerator and Plug & Play Ventures• Increased usage and revenue by developing the initial product vision for transforming field operations in heavy industry, iterating with customers and users• Ensured the most impactful features were prioritized while managing technical debt by ruthlessly prioritizing features based on their impact on key KPIs (monetization, retention, engagement, virality)• Integrated critical customer requests into the product roadmap by forming a Customer Advocacy Board to gain deeper insights into key use cases and product usage conditions• Closed multiple contracts with Fortune 500 customers (Including Schlumberger in < 5 weeks) before building the product by fostering trust and articulating how the product vision aligned with their important KPIs• Gained industry-wide credibility when named "Most Promising Company" at the world's largest technology conference our vertical

San Mateo, California, Us

Protocol-based SDK product that made content delivery to mobile apps 5x faster than TCP• Raised $6M in funding from institutional investors including First Round Capital and Baseline• Advocated for features that transformed our proprietary SDK/protocol-based technology into a reliable product that enabled onboarding and testing by customers• Worked closely with engineering to understand the technical limitations of the product and find solutions to satisfy customer requirements• Delivered the first production-ready shippable beta and secured the first customer within six months of joining by defining requirements to transform the initial technical proof of concept into a viable, developer-facing product• Managed all aspects of the Business Operations and Developer product in this early-stage startup as we grew from 2 people and a technical prototype to a team of 20+ and significant ARR• Managed launch activities with external marketing and PR resources including initial release on Product Hunt where we achieved the #1 position for the day on this emerging product discovery site achieving a 10x increase in new customers with no rise in CAC• Led Sales and BD, growing customer base from 0 to 50 apps in production, including large publicly traded companies where the product was collecting billions of data points/month• Led the process of recruiting a new CEO to bring the company to the next level

Mobile game-focused SDK product to Maximization LTV via Mobile Ads and other content types• Built a diverse team of PMs and Designers and managed over 35 engineers across multiple departments, structuring and leading the Product and Engineering groups with a $5 million operational budget• Improved all KPIs, including retention, engagement, and monetization, by refining features of a two-sided marketplace with input from app publishers, advertisers, and the internal executive team• Supported the increasing demands of a growing customer base, scaling the Product team as it expanded from 400 games and 45 million MAU to over 5000 games and more than 500 million MAU• Increased publisher adoption by 75% by expanding our product to support multiple game development platforms seamlessly• Showcased product innovations at industry conferences, representing the company on panel discussions and through large-scale presentations

• Evaluated platform specific SDKs and led overhaul of platform coverage, bringing in experts to rebuild our offering which drove publisher adoption up 75%• Presented at industry conferences (APPNation, Unite) to promote our platform and build partner relationships• Built relationships and negotiated partnership agreements with 3rd party technology companies to be integrated into our platform

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Mobile and social game Publisher that worked with large IP holders and launched an early indie developer network• Launched a revenue-generating mobile developer network within 6 months by developing the go-to-market strategy and recruiting domestic and international developers.• Achieved a 500% increase in MAU and DARPU within 6 months by taking ownership and enhancing a branded, synchronous multiplayer social game• Foster long-term relationships with developers while producing 9 mobile game titles including critically acclaimed and award-winning original IP as well as large international brands• Improved product development efficiency by transforming the workflow from a traditional waterfall model to an agile development approach.• Present at industry conferences (GDC, iDev360) to recruit to our network, and promote our corporate strategy to independent developers

Oakland, California, Us

• Led a cross-functional team of designers, software engineers, and QA engineers to design and build products• Managed 3rd party development team to ensure that external dependencies were completed as contractually required• Determined the overall product road map by analyzing the state of the industry, using market research, customer feedback and competitive feature set analysis to drive decision making• Built business cases and evaluated new products and services from vendors in terms of alignment with overall corporate strategy, value to the customer, ease of deployment, and impact to product P&L

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Managed all aspects of the operational relationship with Yahoo, MSN and AOL for IM and Email products• Built business cases to analyze the impact of potential product offerings on the Messaging P&L • Managed external development teams and collaborated with partners and internal stakeholders to create an integrated project plan and meet all milestone dates• Analyzed Messaging service performance (including penetration, usage and churn, examining operational issues, trends and how those relate to seasonality and promotional activities) to support Messaging requirements for next generation devices

* Built financial models to assess the feasibility of various product concepts* Negotiated, built and maintained relationships with external vendors, partners and clients* Bridged marketing and engineering effectively facilitate communication and help create an integrated product vision* Designed product enhancements and new products to take advantage of emerging business opportunities

* Created and tracked P&L for product line and lead budget process for general marketing activities and project specific line items* Communicated with culturally diverse and geographically dispersed team to develop specific product requirements for both B2B and consumer customers,* Developed product positioning and pricing strategies for new product lines* Managed multi-departmental project team with members from creative services, internal and outsourced development teams, marketing, sales and customer service

* Lead product design team, conceptualized and designed multiple SMS products and services that were both handset and carrier agnostic* Managed Development and QA teams, prioritized feature rollout and direct product evolution roadmaps throughout the entire Software Development Lifecycle* Considered infrastructure implications when designing functionality to minimize scalability issues* Wrote UI specifications and managed live documents for the development team for multiple products

* Created interface elements for website and web interface of the services to enhance the users experience* Resolved marketing needs with developmental requirements while designing product prototypes* Created product demos using Wireframes and rapid HTML prototyping