This article was published here Have you ever built a product without sufficient market validation? The result is usually wasted resources and more importantly — a wasted opportunity to build something actually useful. This problem can be summarized with 2 characteristics of a product team. Product team lack of skill or lack of ownership. In […]
Engineering and Tech Due Diligence for VCs
This post is a complementary check-list for these slides. Tech 4 key metrics Lead time for changes (the time it takes to go from code committed to code successfully running in production) – good is less than an hour Deployment frequency – good is releasing changes multiple times per day Mean time to restore from […]
Product Iterations Kick-off
This post is about how we usually kick off feedback cycles with iterations on a product. After some customer development the team should have a few hypotheses about the value proposition of the product. The next logical step is to approve/disapprove some of those hypotheses, starting with the fundamentals: Are there customers out there who […]