DEVLAND
Managing Partner
Venture Fund with Studio to attract early founder talent and validate new innovation. Primarily concentrated on tech-driven solutions for enterprise that incorporate themes... more of industry 4.0 technology.
Miles Dotson
General Partner @DEVLAND • Investor • CTO • Ex-Product Manager @ Yahoo (Acquired by Oath/Verizon Media), G2-IS (Acquired by EN) • Techstars Seattle Alum • Mobile Engineer • Startup Advisor • Lifelong Entrepreneur
General Partner @DEVLAND • Investor • CTO • Ex-Product Manager @ Yahoo (Acquired by Oath/Verizon Media), G2-IS (Acquired by EN) • Techstars Seattle Alum • Mobile Engineer • Startup Advisor • Lifelong Entrepreneur
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Experience
Employee
Projects
A Trust Network For Africans
Designer, Head of Product, PostgreSQL, Product Design, Figma · Leading product iterations @ Tribl as we centered our focus on the key behaviors and… · More values for users from the African Diaspora. We have proved since early product stages we were able to prove virality around identity expression and themed conversations relevant to an individual's cultural identity or associations.
Instantly connect with familiar strangers from your tribal communities both near and abroad.
Instantly connect with familiar strangers from your tribal communities both near and abroad.
Improved mobile navigation control for single hand use.
UX Research and Product Design, Balsamiq Mockups, iOS, Invision App · Through investigation of several studies on mobile device and user dexterity we… · More evaluated the need for single hand control enhancement. We researched many ways that existing mobile OS systems address this issue and proposed a solution involving the most common mode of user for this type of device.
Function for single hand mobile screen navigation control. Allowing users to control screen app functions and navigation single-handedly.
Function for single hand mobile screen navigation control. Allowing users to control screen app functions and navigation single-handedly.
Open source community for innovation and learning
We help engineers, designers, PMs, Data Scientist from expert to novice to collaborate on open source product efforts to grow and learn more about their… · More skills and abilities. Through this exchange members will build a portfolio of contributions to help increase their competitive advantage. We also provide job support via slack to help improve the professional image and documentation for each member as the hunt for new opportunities.
Secure Home Subscription Account Management
Product Owner, Google Drive, Balsamiq, Business Model Canvas · Product Strategy and Concept Design, Requirements and Product Roadmap, Testing, and… · More Conducting User Feedback
Sharemetoo is a secure account management app allowing users who share a unique permanent address to share credentials for wifi, parental controls and approved streaming accounts.
Sharemetoo is a secure account management app allowing users who share a unique permanent address to share credentials for wifi, parental controls and approved streaming accounts.
The pains of 5 inconsistent user experiences: One brand.
Product, Invision App, Sketch 3, Google Drive · Specifying Design Case Study Criteria, Research of existing product and market analysis, Proposed new… · More product design.
Through a case study we outlined the key issues with an inconsistent user experience and propose a combined platform design for a major airline brands mobile experience.
Through a case study we outlined the key issues with an inconsistent user experience and propose a combined platform design for a major airline brands mobile experience.
Improvements to VSCO's new membership service
Product Manager, Sketch 3, Canva, Google Drive · Users will now have the ability to share settings and collaborate more in VSCO XPRO. See tutorials and… · More explore user centric settings of your favorite presets and everyone you follow.
**Reduced navigation required to edit and modify preset order
**Share and expose preset settings
**Explore tutorials based on photos you enjoy
**Allow basic users the insight into pro user experience
**Capture use settings as favorites
Identified improvements for existing VSCO membership service. Established plan for approaching feature enhancement of product from user centric perspective. Defined basis for roadmap formulation, channels, and KPIs.
**Reduced navigation required to edit and modify preset order
**Share and expose preset settings
**Explore tutorials based on photos you enjoy
**Allow basic users the insight into pro user experience
**Capture use settings as favorites
Identified improvements for existing VSCO membership service. Established plan for approaching feature enhancement of product from user centric perspective. Defined basis for roadmap formulation, channels, and KPIs.
Education
About
Achievements
Assigned as project manager/product owner mid-project and recovered a runaway $300K enterprise software solution effort within 1 month of assignment.
Successfully shipped CI product releases on iOS and SaaS web products.
Selected by the CEO and COO to help lead digital strategic initiatives company wide and form team of cross-functional contributors. Proposed and implemented strategic initiatives leading to 20% growth in revenue.
Influencer and management team member designing new business initiatives, presented to the executive team and board, followed by successful implementation.
Led value proposition development and customer feedback sessions directly with Fortune 500 accounts to scope new product opportunities.
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Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) and Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
What's your favorite non-business book?
How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton Ph.D.
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Growing fresh food and cooking it, creating art work daily or making music and singing.
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
You have great ideas just run with one and see where it takes you. Network and remember people because they matter now and will matter in the future. Build relationships instead of simply knowing people from a distance.
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
Email and Signal
What words of wisdom do you live by?
Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail!
What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?
Problem solving is my passion. Devising several solutions and evaluating them with collaborators who are more talented and gifted than I. I enjoy the opportunity to bring vision to blank and filled canvases and see the picture from a new perspective.
Which founders or startups do you most admire?
*Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are interesting people because of the creativity they used to grow the idea and raise capital.
*Ben Chestnut of Mailchimp for believing and accomplishing growing a start-up without silicon valley VC cash.
What's your super power?
Rapid problem solving and new idea creation. I have documented so many ideas in my notepad that I now have hundreds. They aren't awesome but the number of viable ideas have grown recently as my skills have evolved.
What was the most impactful class you took in school?
Very Large Scale Integration with Onur Tigli, that guy really influenced my engagement on scale and fabrication of microprocessors to nanoprocessors. I still use concepts I gathered in that course and was able to clearly make sense of Moore's Law.
What's something you wish you had done years earlier?
I wish that I began pitching my earlier ideas and executing them until I found a true reason for them not to work. I was too sheltering and could have benefited from that exposure and experience.
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