People are the most important thing – Adam Neumann
People are the most important thing – in a world full of ideas, numbers and financial projections, we shouldn’t forget that it is all about the people who make magic happen!
agile development
Agile development ensures customer focus to develop and redevelop product priorities. The customer is at its heart in this process to ensure reduced waste and aid constant improvement. Agile development is a beautiful philosophy based on customer success and involving them not just in the sales process alone
Continuous delivery in a startup product
This article relates to the product development journey in an early stage startup. You can easily extend this to innovative developments in product where you’re focusing on agile developments with continuous feedback. However, make sure that you establish the ground rules between production code and experimental developments so that people know the value of a beta.
You’ve got to be embarrassed by your first version!
Embarrassed by your first version: This article is all about developing minimum viable products, gathering customer feedback and continually improving while keeping wastage minimal. One of the most important tenets of the agile process is to keep iterating as often as possible. If you’re waiting for perfection, then you’ll delay time for feedback, eventually costing … Read more
Minimum Viable Product in Agile
Minimum Viable Product in Agile : As the name indicates, an MVP is about minimal development, least investment to test a product’s capability and customer interest. The lean product development movement is heavily inspired by the agile principles that help us continually develop products and test with feedback. The idea is to ensure that we develop, take feedback and improve.
How to write a startup business plan, it’s components?
The first step to any startup is to start with an idea. Once you have an idea, the immediate strategy is to think about its reach and potential. This is one of the biggest differences between a small business approach vs startup. In a small business approach, you can immediate start with the problem/solution without having to think too much about scalability and expansion. These occur organically.
You don’t need to be the biggest brand in the world
Biggest brand in the world: This is a great desire isn’t it? All entrepreneurs start with a great dream – to create the unicorns of the world. To be honest, a startup is probably simpler than that. The root of a startup is in customer problem. It might start with frustration, delight in an experience or finding a more efficient way to do things. Most of these ideas may not be the biggest brand in the world. But they have a humble start from having to solve a problem for a customer.
Focus on forging long-term relationships in Startup
Most accelerators will tell startup founders to focus on networking. You never know who can be extremely helpful in building your startup. Also, you must make sure that you don’t just network for the sake of it. This quote bases itself on the strength of building real relationships to help in your startup journey. Make sure however that you’re not limiting the scope to a short-term output. The worst thing you can do as a startup founder is to go to networking events and start asking people about investment. The purview needs to be larger than that – the love for the field.
Going the Extra Mile in an Agile Context
Going the extra mile in an agile context – is a discussion about managing customer expectations while delivering an excellent product. The discussion centres around priorities of product management, agile philosophies and defintion of done. These lines of thought culminate together to provide customer the expected product and a level of satisfaction which encourages brand loyalty
Surveys for your Startup product development
This discussion takes you through capturing customer feedback, key market intel and constant customer engagement for your product development. There are of course lots of software available to capture this intel and provide key metrics which can be used for various reasons. As a startup, my key rationale was – proving market demand, understanding customer needs and most importantly key insights into what can improve the product.