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How Instant Gratification Silently Hinders Success Productivity
30 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

How Instant Gratification Silently Hinders Success

I’m 33 years old, and it seems that I’ve just recently learned that I need to work hard today to get results in the future. I was never

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How Can a Startup Benefit from a Product Roadmap? Product management
29 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

How Can a Startup Benefit from a Product Roadmap?

Imagine that one day a friend of yours asks you to organize a major conference for avocado growers. If you’re like me, you’d start with a list of

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Start With Email Marketing For Your Startup Success Marketing
28 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

Start With Email Marketing For Your Startup Success

How much time do you need to build an MVP for a startup that you can sell for $20 million? As little as 20 minutes. In 2013, Ryan Hoover created

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You Don’t Need to Get on Oprah. Instead, Find Your Smallest Viable Audience Audience
27 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

You Don’t Need to Get on Oprah. Instead, Find Your Smallest Viable Audience

How would you like to be offered a spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote your product to millions of live viewers? How much would you pay for that?

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Why Your Startup Should Use Google Docs to Collaborate on Documents Team management
26 Nov 2019 · 5 min read

Why Your Startup Should Use Google Docs to Collaborate on Documents

Documents and collaboration are a huge part of any business, especially a technical startup. In a startup, everything from legal documents to meeting notes and feature descriptions need to be

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How to Validate Your Idea with an Educational Product Lean
25 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

How to Validate Your Idea with an Educational Product

In a previous article, I explained why it doesn’t make sense to build a software product as an MVP if you have limited resources and little-to-no background in software

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Should You Build a Core Team Before Building an MVP? MVP
24 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

Should You Build a Core Team Before Building an MVP?

A prospective client of mine recently told me that his biggest struggle as a founder was dealing with procrastination. Procrastination happens when you have a task but it’s scary,

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How to Develop a Landing Page in a Cost-Effective Way Marketing
23 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

How to Develop a Landing Page in a Cost-Effective Way

Many years back, I was working as a system administrator for a small company, where no one on the team but me could add or change a thing on the

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The Five Reasons Why Startups Succeed, According to a Legendary Investor Startups
23 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

The Five Reasons Why Startups Succeed, According to a Legendary Investor

Today I was researching the factors of startup success when I came across one of Bill Gross’s TED Talks. If you don’t know Bill, he’s a legendary

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To Avoid Launching to Crickets, First Make Sure That People Actually Want Your Product Launch
22 Nov 2019 · 3 min read

To Avoid Launching to Crickets, First Make Sure That People Actually Want Your Product

Too often, product launches get postponed again and again because the product isn’t perfect enough. There are bugs. The design requires tweaking. Last-minute testing reveals that payment processing doesn’

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The Three Biggest Misconceptions About MVPs MVP
22 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

The Three Biggest Misconceptions About MVPs

Throughout the years, as I’ve built products for startups — each of which started as an MVP — I’ve worked with many founders who had major misconceptions surrounding what MVPs

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What’s the Optimal Size and Composition of an Agile Team Agile project management
21 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

What’s the Optimal Size and Composition of an Agile Team

A team must be small to remain agile. The smaller your team, the fewer instances of miscommunication you’ll have. Plus, it’ll be easier for you to resolve issues

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Why Your MVP Probably Shouldn’t Be a Software Product MVP
20 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

Why Your MVP Probably Shouldn’t Be a Software Product

More often than not, it’s not a good idea to build software as your minimum viable product. Building software is risky. It’s time-consuming. It’s expensive. Especially if

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Four Myths About What “Viable” Means In Minimum Viable Product MVP
19 Nov 2019 · 3 min read

Four Myths About What “Viable” Means In Minimum Viable Product

The goal of any business is to provide value to your customers. And the only trustworthy indication of whether you’re doing that — of whether your minimum viable product is,

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Product Management Tools You Can Use for Your Tech Startup Product management
18 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

Product Management Tools You Can Use for Your Tech Startup

The words “product management” mean something different for different kinds of teams. For tech startups, product management involves the following: listing all of the features you want to build in

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Steer Clear of Failure with Customer Development Customer Development
16 Nov 2019 · 5 min read

Steer Clear of Failure with Customer Development

What do you think is the №1 reason that startups fail? According to CB Insights, it’s building products that nobody wants. Imagine spending month after month poring over a

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What Is Pretotyping and How Is It Different from Prototyping and building MVP? Prototyping
15 Nov 2019 · 3 min read

What Is Pretotyping and How Is It Different from Prototyping and building MVP?

The term “pretotype” was coined by Alberto Savoia, former Engineering Director at Google. Ass he explains on his website, the main advantage of building a pretotype is to accelerate learning

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What Is the Difference Between a Prototype and an MVP? Prototyping
14 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

What Is the Difference Between a Prototype and an MVP?

Using electric car manufacturing as an example, I’ll illustrate the difference first: A prototype for an electric car might be a wooden, life-size model of the car. The model

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