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Rejection by accelerators? Check. Failed product? Check. Still standing? Check. October 2023: I was at my lowest. Cicero—the product I poured months into—was a mess. Integrations? Failing. Content curation? Horrible. And after endless rejections from VCs and accelerators, we had one Hail Mary: Go viral, fast. Spoiler alert: We didn’t. By November, I had to pivot. Fast. We built Cynthesis, which eventually became Dediro—a product I’m proud of today. But that pivot was ugly. A lot of people don’t talk about the dark days of failure, and here’s my truth: I felt like I let my CTO and team down. I let myself down. → Yet, fast-forward to today, and that failure was the seed for everything that’s working right now. Success? Nah. It’s the struggle that makes it count. Stay in the game, even when you feel like quitting. PS → Ever had a project that fell apart? How did you bounce back?

What’s the goal of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)? 📲 1️⃣ Solve your target market’s core problem while being as… Quick 🚀 Affordable 💰 Resourceful 💡 as possible. 2️⃣ Get potential users to test your solution and collect feedback 🧪 3️⃣ Fine-tune and iterate based on feedback received 🔧 4️⃣ Rinse & Repeat 🔁 I created an MVP Methods & Tools guide for my students in UBuffalo CoLab Powered by Blackstone LaunchPad's Summer Accelerator Program, and I thought it’d be helpful to share with my network as well ⬇️ This guide dives deeper into MVPs and the different methods to test a solution before investing time and resources to build a more complex infrastructure. I would love your feedback. Let me know what you think and if there are any points you would add! 💭

Are non-technical founders missing out by not involving their CTO? A CTO isn’t just the “tech person.” They fill critical gaps, boost investor confidence, and make pitch decks shine. But too often, their role is undervalued. Imagine this: a startup let their CTO lead investor talks—and saw a 40% jump in interest! That’s the power of having a technical voice in the room. So, by keeping the CTO on the sidelines, are founders holding themselves back? What do you think—do non-technical founders fully understand the impact a strong CTO can make?

𝐏𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐕𝐂 𝐚𝐭 𝟐:𝟎𝟎 𝐀𝐌. Stop over-analyzing and start executing. I’ve spent too much time reading, watching, and searching for answers. But the truth is, no amount of content can replace hands-on experience. Focus on your product. Build, iterate, get feedback, and repeat. Don’t wait for the perfect moment – create it by taking action. Start approaching investors, clients, or partners yourself. The only way to grow is to get out there and do it. Your product is your loudest voice. Make sure it’s heard. #Founders #StartupLife #BuildAndLearn #ActionFirst #ProductFocus

What a wild first week inside the Techstars accelerator!! Being able to access proven systems, frameworks and workshops that deep dive into what it actually means to build out your; 👉 Elevator pitch 👉 Identifying your *actual* customer 👉 Assumptions, hypotheses & experiments 👉 Financial modelling (the make or breaker of any biz!) 👉 OKRs vs KPIs & how to set them effectively 👉 Customer discovery... CRITICAL! I've learned *so* much over the past 5 years by interviewing brilliant humans on Female Startup Club - but this has been on another level mind-blowing. And it's only week 1 😋 I'm gonna share a bunch of stuff that's useful for other founders as we go through the next 13 weeks - if you want to be on the receiving end, drop your email in the comments 🫶

Attended a GrowthX® session with Vikram Aditya. Beautiful session - crisp, solid, very friendly for early stage founders. I’m generally very low key on speaking out on what we’re doing and what we’ve achieved with Galli - but yesterday’s session help me shift a view. This post is for my connections. If y’all are building startup’s or interested in the eco-system. Follow the guy and even the platform for that matter. Less chatter, help talk more. Cheers!

Product Market Fit: How To Achieve It Getting to product-market fit is essential for any startup's success. Here’s how you can make it happen: 1) Find a Sizable Market: Identify a market with a real need for your solution. 2) Solve a Problem Worth Solving: Make sure your product addresses a critical issue for your target audience. 3) Build an MVP: Start with a Minimum Viable Product to test and refine your solution. 4) Test, Measure, Learn: Use feedback from early adopters to continuously improve. 5) Iterate: Keep experimenting until you find the right product-market fit. PS. check out 🔔 for a winning pitch deck the template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel https://lnkd.in/ejp-Bhnu

Jeff Gothelf was working with a client who asked him to come in and help them establish objectives and key results (OKRs) for the entire product development organization — nearly 1500 people. He was thrilled. This was an organization anchored for decades in output-focused management techniques. An influx of startups eroding their market share and a drive towards consolidation shocked them into thinking about new ways of working. They were still the market leader and wanted to stay that way. As he sat down for one of his first meetings he asked, “Ok, what’s the company’s strategy for the next year?” The blank stares and delayed responses was a dead giveaway that there either wasn’t one or they didn’t know it. “Isn’t that what OKRs do?” they asked him. Many organizations believe that rethinking their goal-setting framework will somehow magically deliver the right strategy. To get to the real relationship between OKRs and strategy, let’s do some unpacking. Continue on with Jeff’s article: https://lnkd.in/er6EHh-Q

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