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Dan Diac - 8 May 2020

Lessons learned while building a prototype in less than 2 weeks

As software service providers, we have to do our best to tilt those decisions (and their budgets) our way. One way we’ve discovered we can do that very well is by creating a functional proof of concept or a prototype to show potential customers what it would mean to work with us. This is the story of how we broke our winning streak of proof of concepts turned into long term projects and some of the lessons we learned along the way.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 4 Dec 2019

Launching a mobile app product: the idea

Assuming you want to build an App that you want to launch as a product/service, and you are not undertaking this enterprise for fun, there are different approaches you can follow. We've done quite a bit of product development so we approach working on this project in a couple of phases. If you are doing it as a learning project probably some of the steps below are a bit of an overkill but it make still a good exercise.

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Paula Cristea - 6 Nov 2019

Going the extra mile for a product we believe in

Founded in 2015 by Tahir Farooqui, Canopy set out to make the whole renting process easier, faster and completely digitized, to support consumers’ desire for flexible renting and the ability to move easily between rental properties.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 17 Mar 2019

What We've Learned as a Small Business by Using NPS

NPS is an important step in assessing the loyalty of our customers is determining the likelihood of them recommending our company to friends and family members who share the same commercial needs. Thanks to the Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric developed by Fred Reichheld and Laura Brooks, both B2B and B2C companies of all sizes and from all industries can now quantify customer loyalty.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 14 Mar 2019

Business Model Generation App - Canvas Model Design App

Last week we wrote an article about what a business model does for your startup. We made some suggestions we find very useful for mobile startups: Business Model Canvas or Lean Canvas. Both tools do a great job.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 4 Feb 2019

How to create your first Minimum Viable Product via your landing page

The Minimum Viable Product is not about building the minimal product that is usable and sellable, as much as testing your assumptions about the market with the minimal effort needed. After having worked on a few pre-landing pages in different projects, there are a few things that we think are really important:

Technology Idea to MVP
Ilie Ghiciuc - 5 Nov 2018

Scrum. The Right Way to Do Mobile Product Development for Startups.

If you’re a (mobile) startup, you probably know how hard it is to keep everything (and everyone) organized. Developers, testers, marketers, designers, product managers, investors and every other stakeholder have to be constantly communicating, so that all project specifications are understood and simultaneously internalized.

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Paula Cristea - 25 Oct 2018

The Developer’s Guide to Codecamp

We thought we’d give you guys a couple of tips and tricks to help you get the most out of this event.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 21 Sep 2018

Ready. Steady. Go Scrum Methodology!

This is the first in a long series of articles on Scrum which are meant to serve as guidance for tech startups who are eager to start working efficiently and deliver functional products as soon as possible.

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Cezara Pralea - 31 Aug 2018

Early-stage warning signs of startup failure

As an entrepreneur and startup founder, you have faith in your new business. You believe that investing time and effort into developing your idea, going to meetings, putting together a team, pitching to investors, and making a lot of sacrifices will pay off and your business will be successful. The reality is that 90% of startups fail, 10% of which during the very 1st year and 70% during years 2 to 5, according to Failory’s 2020 Report. Indirectly, this statistic emphasises how utterly bonkers one must be to still go ahead and found a startup against all these chilling odds.

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