Startup Secrets Sandbox

Startup Secrets Sandbox

Startup Secrets Sandbox

Frameworks

EVALUATE the Solution

There are many stages you might begin evaluating your solution.

Ideating

Prototyping

Developing

Implementing

Updating

The earlier your evaluate the better. That way you’ll only build what your customers really need.

Use these frameworks to guid you as you proceed through your venture

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3D⁠

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Gain/Pain⁠

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DEBT⁠

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Whole Product⁠

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Example:

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Acquia⁠

Drupal⁠

v1.0

The commercial version of Drupal v1 was built without the “product management muscle” to evaluate the solution being offered early enough. The result was

9 months was spent building the wrong product...

Lessons learned

Try to test your value prop earlier

Try to launch even faster

This lesson is shared openly and vulnerably by the founder of Drupal and Acquia,

Dries Buytaert⁠

, here:

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“We could have learned all of that without having to write a single line of code.”

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Startup Secret:

Build your product management before you build your product!

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