In this 5-part series, we explore the critical factors for startup success. And #3 is…. (drum roll)… MVP!
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Often in pitches or investor presentations, I’m hearing about the awards people have won for their idea, or they are talking only about their vision.
As I’ve said before, execution is everything. And only people can execute! Your team, your people, they are THE absolute most important part of your idea or your business. Without them, you’d be nowhere having your grand vision on your own.
Honor your people, and don’t skip talking about them when you talk about your startup.
No treble.
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The 2019 Apple WWDC showed off a bunch of new innovation from the tech giant. One of our favorites was “Find My iPhone”.
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What is a startup-er to do when things go awry? Run for the hills? Shut the whole thing down? Shred one's towel and throw oneself into the abyss?
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Prototypes save time, money... Maybe even lives. But what exactly constitutes a prototype?
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Google recently removed the infamous motto “Don’t be evil” from its corporate manifesto. And now they’re kind of being evil…
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Setbacks. Delays. Snafus. Whatever name you give them, they are going to happen. So what do you do? Do you freak out? Do you run around like a chicken with your head cut off?
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It’s a concern we hear all the time: “If I’m talking about my idea to everyone and their brother, someone will steal it!” Today we’re helping you take a few settling breaths and understand the reality of ideas.
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"I just had an awesome idea! I bet Google would buy that, it's $100M idea!"
Today I'm doing a little bubble-bursting. Google isn't going to pay you $100M for your idea.
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From the great outdoors of beautiful, sunny Colorado, we are talking about how to balance honoring your original intention for building your app or software idea with building something people actually want and need. How does one little grasshopper do that, Yoda?
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Every entrepreneur I know will describe a time in the building of a new company and new idea where you feel and intuitively know that you are doing all of the right things... But it seems like nothing is happening.
Just because it SEEMS that way, doesn't mean that's true. Just keep going. The difference between an entrepreneur and everyone else is that this is the time the entrepreneur digs in, trusts themselves, and keeps moving forward.
Just keep swimming... swimming... swimming...
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This week on Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show, Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea.com talk about the benefits of advanced education and postulates how much a formal degree matters to be a successful Software Developer.
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Happy Star Wars Day!
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When you're getting to the heart of your app or software idea to determine what needs to be in your prototype or MVP, you need to remember that any app that requires a bunch of pre-loaded data in order to provider value will be MUCH more expensive to produce. That's because you don't already have the data from the user's actually using your product, so you have to buy it from someone else.
If you're in that place, you haven't gone far enough into your idea to root out the intrinsic value of it. Create something that users want or need regardless of the resulting statistics and metrics, and you will curate the data over time. THEN you can add that value into your app later, and your users will be thrilled that now they can see what you see.
Brilliant.
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You MUST know everything that's going on with your company when you're building a startup. If there's a manufacturing process, no one should know it better than you. If there's software, no one should be better informed about the state of the software than you.
HOWEVER... You CANNOT, SHOULD NOT, WILL NOT be able to CONTROL all of those things. And you SHOULD NOT try. Do what you are good at, be the biggest champion of your product and your people, and let those who are great at their jobs do them well.
Happy Tuesday, you know-it-alls!
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