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Suresh Halarneker
Product Ventures

MBA Product Lab

I owned the venture end to end — customer research, product definition, experience design, pricing, business model and go-to-market reasoning — and made the call on whether it was ready to build.

Illustrated venture hero: a smartphone app for organizing important documents, photos and contacts, surrounded by floating cards for files, media and people on a soft purple-to-teal gradient
Context

The company and the organization.

Product Ventures

Independent 0→1 explorations taken outside a company product roadmap — a problem worth investigating, researched with real people, shaped into a product hypothesis, a business model and a testable prototype.

MBA Product Lab

Afterlife was an individual MBA Product Lab capstone completed in 2019: discovery, product strategy, UX, business modelling and go-to-market, carried end to end by one person. It was validated as a concept and prototyped — it was never commercially launched.

  • 240

    Combined research and interest signals

  • 0→1

    Problem → research → product → business → GTM

Role & scope

What I was responsible for.

My role

Product Manager + Product/UX Designer

2019

I owned the venture end to end — customer research, product definition, experience design, pricing, business model and go-to-market reasoning — and made the call on whether it was ready to build.

Direct organization

Individual capstone

Extended cross-functional team

Research participants · Faculty review · Focus groups

Portfolio

Afterlife

Geographies

India

Leadership partners

Period

2019

Note

Extended cross-functional partners are collaborators, not direct reports.