As a founder of an early stage startup you need to be able to wear many hats. Yesterday you had to be a UX Designer, today a Product Manager, tomorrow a Product Developer and so on. This article is for the day when you need to be a Product Manager and offers a visual tool [...]
TODAY’S LEAN WAY Push and Pull strategies usually refer to the point of Product Launch. If the entrepreneur built a product based on his vision and estimates of what people want and then releases it and promotes it – that is Push. If the entrepreneur build a product based on customer research, doing interviews about needs and [...]
If you are preparing to launch your tech startup (hopefully after validating your concept with your customers), most probably you are wondering how you can attract your very first customers. Should I send press releases to media? Should I buy ads? Should I rely on word of mouth? Should I ask friends to use it? Should [...]
Guestpost by: Ander Orcasitas, Account Manager – International Venture Club. Follow him on twitter @AnderOrcasitas While VC funds are the most well known funding source for startups, the decline of active funds has led to corporations starting to take a slice of the venture scene. Here are the implications for your startup. Corporates are now flooding into early [...]
The biggest barrier one can have to reach amazing things is being afraid to try. And we are afraid to try because we are afraid to fail. Sounds like a hamster wheel, right? Well, the way to get out of it is by shifting mentality. And that ain’t easy, so here are some little tweaks [...]
When you are an early stage tech startup, impress investors with how well you seduce your customers, not with how many you seduced already. Investors like to see engaged first customers and good conversion and retention rates, not absolute numbers. You need to prove that your first customers have a big crush on your product. That [...]
“A lot of companies start by building a product. But you have to realize you build a money making machine, where product is just a part of it.“ told me Vladimir Blagojevic, the man behind Lean Startup Circle Brussels, 10steps2.com, Launched.be and GrantSnap. What does he mean by that? Being a fan and practitioner of Lean Startup, Vladimir suggests to entrepreneurs [...]
Even if we say that the team and implementation matters more than the business idea itself, we still can’t ignore the importance of working for something that actually makes sense, besides being a passion for founders. Creativity is all good, but in business there are some ways to check if your idea really leads [...]
So you organize a conference and you do your best to get as much media coverage as possible. Have you considered Official Bloggers as well? And if yes, do you know how to find them and how to deal with them? This post will give you a few tips & tricks on this, gathered from [...]
While attending Startup Week last October in vienna, I saw Mike Butcher (Editor at TechCrunch Europe) on stage presenting how to (and not to) approach tech media when you are a startup. Now it is online, so check below the slides and the video. Enjoy and see you on TechCrunch How to deal with tech [...]
Yesterday, 8th december 2010, took place this year’s edition of NetCamp – a conference for existing and wanna be online entrepreneurs, organised by Manafu and Evensys team in Bucharest, Romania. The event gathered more than 200 people with ongoing or planned businesses in the online environment, most of them men (80 – 90%) and very [...]
