How did you get started in tech and entrepreneurship? I majored in Computer Science in undergrad. Shortly after graduation, I started working as a Computer Programmer and I’ve been in the same field since then. A few years after graduating I started a web design...
We know. You want to get to the fun part of entrepreneurship: building your product, creating your logo, and brainstorming names. And here we are talking about validation and customer research (again) and how sending out surveys, while helpful, rarely tells the whole...
When you hear zero-to-one in the context of product development, it's critical to understand exactly what we're talking about. We can think about it as: Zero-to-one represents the phase of a product's existence between the idea and the first shippable version, known...
How did you get started in tech and entrepreneurship? I officially started my career in tech as a Software Developer in 2016, but even before that I'd always been very interested in technology. After taking a Web Design course as an undergrad, I knew I wanted to dig...
The Lean Canvas accommodates and highlights this uncertainty by staying high level. There is no false sense of certainty here. In the early days, there are simply things we can not know. The Lean Canvas assumes this and helps guide the user down a path of progressive discovery, thus removing uncertainty.
In our last blog post, we covered No-Code and Low-Code, what these terms mean, and, most importantly how best to use these tools and techniques to help you get a software product to market.
A Minimum Viable Product is the nexus of these two ideas: narrow scope with a bias towards learning. It is a tool to help you build out an idea, test it in the market, and learn from its performance so you can iterate on it.
Last week we covered the different methods available for building a new software product and this week we’re going to start our journey into one of those methods, Development Shops.
There are lots of heated debates about where the line is drawn between MVPs and Prototypes, but we want to make this simple for you to understand by creating a simple heuristic:
If it creates value and a customer will trade something of value to use it, it’s an MVP. If it doesn’t create value, it’s a Prototype.
Once we’ve got this hypothesis created, it’s time to test it! And the first way we do that is by talking to potential users.
Now, you may be asking yourself, who is my potential user? Well, chances are you already have a pretty good idea in mind, but just like our hypothesis should be specific and measurable, so should our ideal user profile be, too.