Collide 2014 presentation
I touch on:
-Lean startup
-Design
-Minimum viable dopeness
-Other great things that will help you build better products.
http://collidehalifax.com/sessions/how-to-build-products-people-love/
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Hardware = Expensive & longer iterations
Market size was small
Price was high
Business model
Recurring revenue issues
+more
Challenges
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LinkedIn for Twitter
Rational:
‧ Easier to make and sell (SaaS)
‧ Existing market + customers
‧ Lots of money in recruiting*
*In theory
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Validate market
Competitors: They had tonnes of users
and we could do it way better.
Our unfair advantage:
Custom NoSQL graph engine
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Lessons Learned
Do one thing well.
Simple product = Less support.
Talk to your users - find pain points.
Remove all friction to help get to product market fit.
Iterate fast.
Track users using tools like Woopra/Mixpanel.
Ask forgiveness not permission.
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Business
Steve Blank
Eric Ries
Ash Maurya
Andrew Chen
Dave McClure
Marc Andreeson
Ben Horowitz
Paul Graham
Brad Feld
Mark Suster
Sean Ellis
Chris Sacca
Jason Calacanis
Crossing the Chasm
Dan Martell
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Art & Design
Rem Koolhaas
Dieter Rams
IDEO
Stefan Sagmeister
Brian Mackay Lyons
Peter Zumthor
David Ogilvy
Jon Rafman
Brad Troemel
Louis Kahn
Massimo Vignelli
George Lois
Chip Kidd
Bjarke Ingels
Aaron Draplin
Nakai San
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“ Minimum Desirable Product is the
simplest experience necessary to prove
out a high-value, satisfying product
experience for users ”
- Andrew Chen
MDP
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Acquisition: Users come to the site from various channels
Activation: Users enjoy 1st visit: “happy” user experience
Retention: Users come back, visit site multiple times
Referral: Users like product enough to refer others
Revenue: Users conduct some monetization behavior
Source: Dave McClure
Customer Lifecycle
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“ Don’t take advice from anyone who hasn’t
done what you’re trying to do. ”
- Dan Martell
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“ If a man does not work passionately - even
furiously - at being the best in the world at
what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny,
and his God. ”
- George Lois
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“ Let me tell you one thing, In this world we
are living in, 98% of everything that is built
and designed today is pure shit. There’s no
sense of design, no respect for humanity or
for anything else. They are damn buildings
and that’s it. ”
- Frank Gehry
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“ When I think of competition it’s like I try
to create against the past. I think about
Michelangelo and Picasso.
You know, the pyramids. ”
- Kanye West