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Category Design News: Category Design Play Bigger (2)

Airtable voted #1 on the 2022 Enterprise Tech 30 List!

The Enterprise Tech 30 presented by Wing Venture Capital names private companies in Enterprise Technology with the most potential to meaningfully shift how tech companies operate..

Zeke, the Caldor Fire, and the Emergence of a New Category of Media

Two firefighters assess a blaze near Lake Tahoe, California

Play Bigger + Jumpspeed VC Zoom Meeting

Last week, Play Bigger’s Dave Peterson engaged in a lively category design zoom discussion with Jumpspeed Ventures, one of the top early stage VC’s in the Startup Nation of..

New Category : Continuous Controls Monitoring

Congrats to Notion Capital backed Panaseer for nailing their category with Gartner. We often say that starting with Gartner can be one of the hardest challenges in designing your..

Category Design CMO Coffee Talk with Play Bigger: Zoom Recap and Q&A

The discussion with Dave, Latane Conant and Matt Heinz provides plenty of valuable tips and tangible examples for budding category designers and CMOs. Below we’ve featured some..

Malcolm Turnbull Zoom Webinar w/ Play Bigger Part 2 Zoom Webinar

Malcolm believes the new age of Work From Home (WFH) has greatly changed business today, accelerated by Zoom-style technology and the ubiquitous presence of hi-speed broadband. I..

Malcolm Turnbull Zoom Webinar w/ Play Bigger Part 1

Last week, Play Bigger Co-Founder and proud Aussie, Al Ramadan, moderated a compelling webinar with former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull (2015-18). Before and after..

The Messaging Hierarchy Pyramid

In Chapter 2 of Play Bigger, we include an example provided by Tenable CMO and veteran category designer, Jennifer Johnson. Her Messaging Hierarchy Pyramid diagram was created to..

Don't Shoot The Hunter!

“This has been one of those ‘evergreen’ articles, it seems to last the test of time,” said Dave. "My good friend, who is a CMO, just read it and was laughing that the Shoot the..

Category Design Showcase: To ride the Unrideable with Kai Lenny

Great new categories are often a problem people didn’t know they could solve. “The Hydrofoil has been around for 30 years. It was reimagined. What it has allowed us to do is ride..

Category Design Summit Panel Highlight: Michelle Valentine

Back at our 2018 Category Design Summit, Michelle engaged the entire panel with an interesting question:

What problem is Category Design solving?

Too many good companies with good products fail to make a dent in the universe — because they can’t find their place in the universe. Too many companies essentially stick a pole..