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✨📚 welcome back to the async book club 📚✨ Having concerns/embarrassments/icks over the ‘quality’ of your MVP? The customer defines the quality! Who are you to decide what they think is ‘a bit shit’? This is my favourite story in The Lean Startup. It shows how we can waste a lot of time, money, and energy assuming that our customers will want something a certain way, and be very wrong! And what if we ship something that is actually shit and our customers complain about the quality? Well then it’s lucky we are testing small with early adopters and we can implement those changes based on their feedback 😜 --- P.S. I’m hosting a FREE webinar next week! I will be sharing insights on the 3 places I see early-stage founders make mistakes when building tech and 3 actionable tips to make sure they don’t happen to you! Get involved <3 https://lu.ma/nfo22xt7

One of the most rewarding things for me is having the opportunity to share what I have learned with others, and since moving to Cambridge five years ago I have had the privilege of advising UK startups in the Deeptech Labs VC fund and accelerator. I really like what CEO and fellow Qualcomm alum Miles Kirby and his team are doing to fund and prepare seed-stage startups for Series A funding and longer term success. #startup #deeptech #payitforward

Want to hear cool stuff during the TechChill 2024, happening 17-19 April? Help me to get on the Open Mic stage by voting for my topic: "Decoding Decision-Making: The Evolutionary Roots of Cognitive Biases in Startups" Will talk about how cognitive biases affect decision-making, specifically in market research during customer discovery and validation, why those biases exist, and how to notice and mitigate them. Let's turn that mental blocker defect into effect and decrease the huge number of failing startups (36-42%) who fail because of 'No market need' - basically, building a product, that no one needs. Follow URL, find my name and vote: https://lnkd.in/ex7ZdiUQ Thanks a lot and see you at TechChill!

I lost $200K in trying to build an MVP as a non-technical founder Three lessons you can learn 👇 Between 2014 and 2018, I worked on three startup ideas and failed. I lost a lot of money with failed products, few non-released products, and no team. Here are the three lessons you can learn from my mistakes #1 Jumping straight into product development with no validation of the problem and customer discovery #2 Trying to compete with established competitors and missing the goal of MVP #3 Not working with the right tech team to build my product. So here you go, save yourself $200K Remember to follow the problem, validate it and launch an MVP soon. What is your experience in building an MVP?

Decisions made in the early days of a startup have a drastic effect on getting a product out into market. How and why BuildPass chose its tech stack had less to do with industry trends, and more to do with playing to our strengths 💪 Here's the story, check it out 👇

My definition of Product-Market Fit: Tuning the product to meet the needs of the Ideal Customer Profile, while also tuning the Ideal Customer Profile to meet the product’s intended value.   Fit is indicated by customer engagement and Sustainable growth. This applies to *ALL* products, not just to startups. Learn more in my intense 2-week exec-level course starting in February: https://lnkd.in/gVmCqnD8

Future tech founders 🚀 If you’re based in North East Scotland check out the below accelerator programme to help your progress your tech idea 💡

Loved this bit from James Clift about how to spend your time at the earliest stages of a startup: strict focus on the most important things (writing code and talking to users) and making sure you're rigorously testing the market demand for your idea before you go full-tilt.

I am happy to announce that I've been selected by Startup Geeks to start the 12 weeks 'Startup Builder' incubation path! 🏆 This experience will be matter of an extreme personal improvement in 5 main macro-areas: (1) Customer and Problem Validation (2) Business Model, Market and Competitors (3) Landing Page and Marketing Campaign (4) Business Plan & Financial Plan (5) Improving Pitch Decks to engage Investors.