🎯 Product Expert · Bushel

December 01, 2019

By Ted Steinmann

Company: Bushel Dates: December 2019 - September 2020 Location: Fargo, North Dakota

Summary

Supported expansion planning by evaluating API-enabled business opportunities, building value propositions, and shaping recommendations for adjacent-market growth across Bushel's connected agricultural ecosystem.

What I Was Responsible For

  • Evaluating adjacent-market opportunities and API-enabled service models
  • Developing value propositions, resource recommendations, and revenue projections
  • Partnering with leadership and engineering on integration opportunities and growth strategy

Key Contributions

  • Developed API-based business models designed to leverage network effects across grain buyers, farmers, and enterprise partners
  • Built value propositions, resource recommendations, cost estimates, and revenue projections for adjacent-market opportunities
  • Helped shape integration opportunities and new service offerings aligned with platform growth
  • Supported strategic customer acquisition in adjacent market spaces by clarifying business value and implementation implications

Systems & Thinking

  • Platform economics and network effects
  • API business model design
  • Growth evaluation under resource constraints

Related Work

Highlights

  • Contributed to strategic discussions around expanding platform capabilities and capitalizing on network effects within the agricultural ecosystem
  • Helped shape emerging business models leveraging connected grain buyers, farmers, and enterprise partners
  • Worked closely with leadership and engineering to evaluate integration opportunities and new service offerings aligned with platform growth
  • Developed new API-based business models and assisted in landing strategic customers within adjacent market spaces
  • Developed value propositions, resource recommendations, cost estimates and revenue projections
  • Evaluated opportunities and growth potential based on incentive-driven network effects

Tools & Technology

API strategy artifacts, market modeling, financial projections, product discovery materials

Categories: experience

Tags: product-management, platforms