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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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  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:

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  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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  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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  Ilie Ghiciuc - 31 Aug 2018

  6 and 1/2 Tips for Preparing Your Pitch Deck

  Your pitch deck is the most memorable PowerPoint presentation you’ll ever make. Those 10-15 slides packed with substantial information are all you need to convince your listeners to embrace your idea and help you act on it, transforming it into a profitable business. For your pitch deck to have substance, it needs to mould to your personality. To attain that supreme goal and make yourself impossible to forget, check out these 6 and ½ tips for preparing a killer pitch deck.

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  Ilie Ghiciuc - 31 Aug 2018

  Essential Time Management Strategies for Busy Entrepreneurs

  Entrepreneurship is a mindset that demands both professional and personal abilities. Launching, executing, growing and scaling your startup is a mental exercise involving business strategy, networking, research, planning, marketing, and numerous other related activities. Managing time effectively often becomes a challenge when your daily schedule is fully booked with meetings and events. Working 80 hours a week with little to no progress is a clear sign of poor time management abilities.

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  Ilie Ghiciuc - 31 Aug 2018

  Why investors should be tough on you

  When an investor believes your idea has great potential to go big, it’s human to confuse the relationship with a friendship. Truth be told, it’s not. Investors have faith in your startup’s concept, team, and solution. They want to believe your business can make them profitable. But if things go south, it usually means you won’t shake hands and remain best buds.

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  Ilie Ghiciuc - 24 Jul 2018

  Scrum Methodology - a Personal Approach

  There’s always an awesome team behind a great functionable product. The idea of removing waste from the system should be fundamental to every mobile development process. Scrum methodology techniques help companies keep track of the product management and development practices, so they can make improvements during the working course. Since Agile projects are three times more successful than Waterfall projects, we decided to share a few essential elements with you, extracted from our Agile experience so far. Raluca, one of our project managers, took us through the Scrum steps in order to get a better understanding of its benefits.

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