James Colgan

James Colgan

San Francisco, California, United States
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About

I’m a seasoned product and growth executive and former founder with over 15 years of…

Articles by James

  • The 5%: What Successful Enterprise AI Pilots Will Get Right

    Enterprises are in the middle of a gold rush. AI pilots are being launched in every function: customer support, HR…

  • The Pricing Supernova: Why SaaS Pricing Just Exploded

    For two decades, SaaS pricing was simple and predictable: seat-based subscriptions, flat monthly fees, and sky-high…

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  • AI is Breaking SaaS Metrics - And That’s a Good Thing

    Those who know me know how obsessed I am with metrics and how to drive them by building product value and driving GTM…

  • A New Framework for AI-Era SaaS Pricing

    💬 Every founder I speak to right now is struggling with pricing in the AI era. You’ve built something powerful.

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  • B2B software is heading for a reckoning.

    For years, success was about the “enterprise playbook”: ✅ Build a deep feature set ✅ Sell top-down into procurement ✅…

  • Six Steps to Transition to Product-Led-Growth and Achieve Startup to Scaleup Escape Velocity

    For a company to transition from Startup to Scaleup it must restructure a few things to achieve escape velocity. Here…

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  • Optimism for 2022!!

    Happy New Year!! I’m sure for everyone the year is not starting as we all hoped it would. Many of us working from home…

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  • A New Challenge

    It’s a bitter-sweet moment as I announce my departure from Slack and my joining Spendesk as Chief Product Officer. To…

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  • Productivity Beyond COVID

    As we start to see the light at the end of the tunnel with the pandemic, a December HBR Article “The Pandemic Is…

  • Icons Point to Larger Microsoft Evolution

    Given there are over 1 billion people using Microsoft Office products, to make a change to the iconography is a weighty…

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Experience

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    Cathay Innovation

    San Francisco, California, United States

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    San Francisco, California, United States

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    San Francisco, California, United States

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco, California, United States

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    Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

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    Paris, Île-de-France, France

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    Paris, Île-de-France, France

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    San Francisco, California

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    San Francisco, California

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    San Francisco

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco

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    Greater Boston Area

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    Silicon Valley

Education

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    MIT Professional Education

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    The design of AI-based products, and the fundamentals of machine and deep learning algorithms. The application of AI technologies and insights to solve practical user and business problems.

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    Activities and Societies: Graduated #1 in the class. Competed across 3 universities to be selected for a 1-year technical internship at Omron, based in Tokyo, Japan.

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Founder

    Highground Hackers

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    Social Services

    A group of civic minded developers and entrepreneurs working to connect engineering talent with non-technical experts in different fields of public concern. Organized multiple hackathons and developer weekends that resulted in applications being deployed for organizations such as Cure Violence, one of the top 50 NGO's in the world.

Patents

  • Integrated circuit with multiple functions sharing multiple internal signal buses according to distributed bus access and control arbitration.

    Issued US 5,774,684

    An integrated circuit (IC) includes multiple circuits and functions which share multiple internal signal buses, three physical and five logical, according to distributed bus access and control arbitration. The multiple internal signal buses are shared among three tiers of internal circuit functions: a central processing unit and a DMA controller; a DRAM controller and a bus interface unit; and peripheral interface circuits, such as PCMCIA and display controllers. Two of the physical buses…

    An integrated circuit (IC) includes multiple circuits and functions which share multiple internal signal buses, three physical and five logical, according to distributed bus access and control arbitration. The multiple internal signal buses are shared among three tiers of internal circuit functions: a central processing unit and a DMA controller; a DRAM controller and a bus interface unit; and peripheral interface circuits, such as PCMCIA and display controllers. Two of the physical buses correspond to two of the logical buses and are used for communications within the IC. The third physical bus corresponds to three of the logical buses and is used for communications between the IC and circuits external to the IC. Arbitration for accessing and controlling the various signal buses is distributed both within and among the three tiers of internal circuit functions. Maximum performance is thereby achieved from the circuit functions accessed most frequently, while still achieving high performance from those circuit functions accessed less frequently. The IC may provided with a processor core with features that support In-Circuit Emulation (ICE).

    Other inventors
    • Ralph Haines
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  • Bidirectional parallel data port having multiple data transfer rates, master, and slave operation modes, and selective data transfer termination

    Issued US 5,710,939

    A bidirectional parallel signal interface for providing a parallel data interface between a computer and an external peripheral device includes an interface circuit with command registers for communicating commands and data, a first-in, first-out (FIFO) memory for communicating data between the computer and the peripheral device, and host and slave state machines for receiving commands from the command registers and in accordance therewith controlling communication of data between the FIFO and…

    A bidirectional parallel signal interface for providing a parallel data interface between a computer and an external peripheral device includes an interface circuit with command registers for communicating commands and data, a first-in, first-out (FIFO) memory for communicating data between the computer and the peripheral device, and host and slave state machines for receiving commands from the command registers and in accordance therewith controlling communication of data between the FIFO and peripheral device and communicating control signals to and from the peripheral device. The communication of data between the FIFO and peripheral device is effected in accordance with data communication rates which are controlled by the host and slave state machines in accordance with the commands from the command registers. The communications of control signals by the host and slave state machines are responsive to their control signals with such responsiveness being controllable in accordance with the commands from the command registers. The communication of data from the FIFO to the peripheral device is halted by the host state machine in accordance with its commands from the command registers. The command registers include a status register for storing data from the peripheral device representing a number of status states of the peripheral device.

    Other inventors
    • william ballachino
    • franco Iacobelli
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Honors & Awards

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    ► Keynote Speaker at Product Management & Innovation 2018
    ► Speaker and Panelist at Microsoft Ignite 2017
    ► Keynote Speaker at Velocity 2014: “Building Self-Adaptive Autonomous Infrastructure”
    ► Social Media Marketing Instructor for 2010 semester at UC Santa Cruz, CA

Languages

  • Japanese

    Professional working proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

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