Lodestone

I waited a full 24 hours, and it's still hard to put into words what happened last night. The summer of 2024 will forever be a personal highlight with CodeLaunch Accelerator's inaugural CodeLaunch Canada competition. What started with a little hesitation and skepticism ended with full blown elation and jubilation as Lodestone was awarded the Judges' Champion at #CodeLaunchCAN2024! A huge shoutout to Improving's CTRL-ALT-ELITE team: Steven Eckert, Jabir Minjibir and our captain Dave Kichler - you guys were absolute rockstars during our hackathon. It was filled with optimism, doubt, dread, unexpected twists, renewed energy, last mile all out sprints - all the things you'd want in a quality hackathon. You guys have given Lodestone a phenomenal boost with your efforts on our Growth Cube Simulator module. To the CodeLaunch Accelerator group: Jason W. Taylor, Raheel S. Malik, Kaitlin Stramiello and team. Thank you for having the vision and passion to bring this tremendous experience to Canada. I am honoured (Canadian with the "u") to be your first Judges' Choice winner here. To my fellow finalists: Measurme (Nazar Burban), rax (Marley Alles), Xennial Innovations Inc. (Amanda Punsammy, Maurice Yu), Asseto (Brian Banton, MDes RGD, Jacqui Lau), and our overall Champions Materia Bioworks (Hasitha de Alwis) - thank you for pushing me to be my best in order to have a chance to stand beside you. We forged some very special and unique relationships during our time in this program, and I hope they continue to blossom long after this has passed. #CodeLaunchCAN2024 #Lodestone #ProductManagement #ProductManager #InItToWinIt

Lodestone has advanced to the Semifinals of CodeLaunch Accelerator's #CodeLaunchCAN2024 competition! The good folks at CodeLaunch Accelerator and Improving put on a great event where founders were able to come and mingle as the semifinalists were revealed. Thanks to everyone who supported us in the previous round to help us move forward! We promise to do our best and not let you down! Congrats to the other startups and founders who also advanced to the next round! Let's go! #Lodestone #ProductManagment #ProductManager #InItToWinIt

UPDATE: the correct name of Dennis's company is Lodestone. LinkedIn does not allow us to update the image after posting it. Our apologies for the typo in the post's image. A new episode with a Startup founder is now available! This year we are changing a bit how we publish episodes about startups that build innovative products for product people. Instead of creating a series with several episodes in a row like we did in previous years, we are going to release one-of episodes, as we find and get to interview the founders of the startups. The first Startup of 2024 is Lodestone. We have met with Dennis Chow, seasoned Product Executive, with rich experience in product management at major Canadian telecom companies Rogers Communications and TELUS, Sears Canada, Pivotal Payments, Intuit, TouchBistro and more. An instructor at Product Faculty and advisor to startups, Dennis always looked for ways to help communicate complex product decisions into simple ways that are easily and transparently shared up and across the organization. This was the first problem he set out to solve as founder and CEO of Lodestone, but his vision is much larger than that! Join Matt and Moshe as we chat with Dennis and learn: 👉 His path to Product Management, working in chunks of 5 years (10K hours) to get great at what he does and move his career forward 👉 The vision of Lodestone, a Product Management toolkit that help PMs move faster and get more things done 👉 The sunburst roadmap, a visual roadmap tool that one one hand, helps connecting epics and stories with the strategy, and on the other hand, helps product managers tell a better story 👉 Other features such as feature repository, documentation generator with the help of AI - to help PMs start from something rather than a blank page 👉 The difference between roadmaps and release plans 👉 His vision for the next 5 years of Lodestone, including more value to product leaders and early stage startup founders 👉 How does Lodestone works with research and discovery data 👉 👉 And much more! 🎧 Check the comments for the links to the episode 💬 Feel free to comment, share and just let us know what you think! It is a product-in-progress, and we want your feedback to make it better! #product #startup #productmanagement #productmindset #productforproductpodcast #p4ppodcast #productteam ⚠ Note: any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests, and do not represent the products mentioned in any way. Please leave us a review and feedback 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟