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Sharing my learnings from one month of bootstrapping b7labs.co:
1. Building in public works wonders.
2. Free services attract spammers
3. Getting noticed is easier than you think.
4. Focus on building a valuable product.
5. cache. #startuplessons #bootstrapping
1. Building in public works wonders.
2. Free services attract spammers
3. Getting noticed is easier than you think.
4. Focus on building a valuable product.
5. cache. #startuplessons #bootstrapping
1. Building in public works wonders.
Building in public is a powerful way to validate your idea, pivot quickly, and build your network. Twitter is an awesome community with genuine supporters. Avoid building in isolation. #buildinpublic #networking #validation
Building in public is a powerful way to validate your idea, pivot quickly, and build your network. Twitter is an awesome community with genuine supporters. Avoid building in isolation. #buildinpublic #networking #validation
2. Free services attract spammers
Free services attract a lot of spammers & it's hard to keep them away. Unless you have investors &sponsors, reduce free access. Ad revenue won't work until you scale. (Read-only services like blogs & newsletters are an exception) Think #freemium
Free services attract a lot of spammers & it's hard to keep them away. Unless you have investors &sponsors, reduce free access. Ad revenue won't work until you scale. (Read-only services like blogs & newsletters are an exception) Think #freemium
Happy to share my new paper "Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas" with Tia Boss, @linusdahlander and Rajshri Jayaraman, which is now in print in Organization Science pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12….
What motivated us … (1/n)
What motivated us … (1/n)
(2/n) Early-stage entrepreneurship is organized in many different flavors nowadays, in the green field as well as within and across corporate boundaries. Think of new organizational forms such as company builders, incubators, accelerators or hackathons.
(3/n) These new forms differ in terms of underlying organizational design principles: (a) how tasks are determined and (b) how they are allocated to people. Both design problems can be solved through "managerial" assignment, or through "entrepreneurial" autonomy & self-selection.
(1) La vuelta al colegio en otoño va a suponer un reto de enrome magnitud. El nivel de incertidumbre respecto al #covid19 es muy elevado. La asimetría de los rebotes, también. La dependencia de los mismos con los usos y costumbres sociales parece evidente
(2) Parece claro también que en España, tanto a nivel de Gobierno Central como de CCAA, existe un elevado nivel de desconcierto y descoordinación respecto a lo que va a suceder.
(3) El problema es un claro problema de innovación: una organización (el Sistema Educativo en su conjunto) se enfrenta a un repentino cambio en las variables de entorno. De hecho, no es “repentino”: hemos tenido seis meses para planificar escenarios y proponer soluciones
The tweet that started it all...
The original landing page for the conference was just a Mailchimp website that had a signup form so I could capture interest. I put the vision out there and asked people to sign up. 
We hosted the site on Mailchimp for a Week before switching over to our current platform. I forgot (didn't know I needed) to turn on tracking for the site on day one so those numbers are lost. In a week over 3200 visitors and 328 signups on the site all organic
When I started teaching #prodmgmt in 2013, there was a huge need to concentrate on the user. Everything you read about the discipline was so focused on the business and generating requirements. We were lacking customer focus. /1
While companies still need a lot of work in this area, we've come a long way thanks to tireless efforts of people pushing the agendas in #leanstartup, #leanux, and customer-centricity.
But now, we've swung the pendulum the other way. /2
But now, we've swung the pendulum the other way. /2
I see so many new product managers only focusing on what the customer asks for, frequently turning into "waiters" - they add these requests to the backlog, with no semblance of product strategy or what makes sense for the business. /3
1/ I never usually makes posts like this, but this feels like a special day and it seems worth sharing the context on what this means to me....
2/ Back in 2013 my friend @sam_hatoum told me about a book called The #LeanStartup. It resonated not because I'd experienced it to be right, but because we'd just completed an 18 month project of doing the complete opposite of the everything the book described, and it sucked
3/ By 2014 I was convinced I wanted to try these methods, but couldn't imagine how to get traction for these ideas at my then employer.
8 yrs ago today, 4 of my friends built a software product in a department store. A video of it is still today's quintessential example of #LeanStartup, #LeanUX, #DesignThinking, and #Agile in action. @lightsmith @kimhamlet @tzeiler @garybernhardt (1/2)
@lightsmith @kimhamlet @tzeiler @garybernhardt Universities, thought leaders, consultants, and other change makers continue to use that story around the world to improve teams, their products and business results by including customers and reducing decision waste. (2/2)
@lightsmith @kimhamlet @tzeiler @garybernhardt To get more join me @Smartsheet or see some of the people we learned from @ericries @jboogie @barryoreilly @jseiden @jeffpatton @sgblank @lissijean
One Day Design Sprint. Morning 8 am Start. Just one USP User Flow. Virtual Projection everything on Apple Watch size screen. Limited Space, limited IA, limited ID & linear task flow. 2 PM Usability Testing. 4 PM improvisation on data collected. 6 PM wrapup. @AJSmartDesign
I was following Design Sprint of @AJSmartDesign that is 4 days long. Then it strike me that does Screen Size (apple watch, phone, tablet, Desktop, TV, Projector) proportional to the Design Sprint's duration (week)?
A 4 day sprint will have multiple objective. A 1 day sprint will have USP objective cutting out all the noise. A 1 day sprint means failing at the end of the day if the USP can't be discovered or usability testing don't get the expected output. Much better than failing on the
How to Innovate 101 🤓
1. Talk to people to find their most painful problem
2. Create a unique solution to solve that problem
3. Make sure people love the solution and recommend it to others
4. Get your solution in the hands of more people with the problem
Don’t skip any steps.
1. Talk to people to find their most painful problem
2. Create a unique solution to solve that problem
3. Make sure people love the solution and recommend it to others
4. Get your solution in the hands of more people with the problem
Don’t skip any steps.
Conversations with potential customers: The only way to find people’s most painful problems
Start with your strongest muscle 💪🏽
Like to talk? Do sales before product
Like to write? Start marketing
Like to build? Build something fast
Find your fastest path to conversations!
Start with your strongest muscle 💪🏽
Like to talk? Do sales before product
Like to write? Start marketing
Like to build? Build something fast
Find your fastest path to conversations!
“Build something people love to use.” Is tossed around as a mantra in #startup land.
We’re talking about product/market fit.
People loving your product so much that they can’t live without it and can’t help but tell others is the holy grail of product/market fit.
We’re talking about product/market fit.
People loving your product so much that they can’t live without it and can’t help but tell others is the holy grail of product/market fit.
