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Product Development for startupAslam Hirani
What is startup
Startups run with constraints
Startup want to provide value to end customers
Value
34% startups find challenge in Product Development*
* https://www.startupmuster.com/Startup-Muster-2015-Report.pdf
Three important steps in product development
What to build
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Build itHow can we
improve it
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Three important steps in product development
What to build
1
Build itHow can we
improve it
2 3
Fortune - “top reason” that startups fail: “They make products no one wants.”
42% of them identified the “lack of a market need for their product”
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improve it
Fortune - 2014 survey
If you take too much time and you realize that customers want something else
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Build what users need
Challenges
Goal
Who is the user Day in life of the user
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User Requirements
Three important steps in product development
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Time to market is vital for companies to produce value
Competition
Technologies change
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Schoolgennie
● Time take to release the product - 11 months
● Funding - 15 Lakhs
● Looked at competitor product features to build product.
● No interaction with customers while building the product
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http://yourstory.com/2014/10/schoolgennie-failure-reasons/
Neverending● Neverending - video game
● Time taken - 18 months
● Customers did not like the game
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http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Neverending
Build Minimum value product
What is to be built
Feature 1
Feature 2
Feature 3
Feature 4
Product or Prototype
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FTW - Avoid to deliver perfection in first release
Name – FTW
● Tried to deliver “perfection” in my first shot, which is never possible.
● Improvise gradually.
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http://crackjobinterview.com/10-indian-startups-that-failed-in-2014/
Google Docs
If Google had waited to implement the comparable set, or even 20% of the most commonly used functionality, it would have taken them years before the first release.
http://www.deltamatrix.com/agile-time-to-market
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ID - Start small to understand the customer response
Initial target - 20 stores
Sell 100 packets a day in six months
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http://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/how-a-coolies-son-set-up-a-rs-100-crore-company/20151216.htm
Develop limited features but with speed and quality
Speed Quality
Simple
Simplicity
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Keep your products simpleWhat is to
be built Build itHow can
we improve it
Team
● Dependent on part timers
● Product oriented
● Cross Functional
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Three important steps in product development
What to build
1
Build itHow can we
improve it
2 3
64 % of features in products are “rarely or never used*
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*Standish group study
Continuous feedback to improve the product
Social Media/ Discussion Groups
Warranty/Customer SupportDevice/SoftwareProduct
development
Feedback, Product Ideas
Product Returnsproduct issuesLive Chat
SME involvement
Software update
Trainings
Operations
SupportTraining
Product Performance
Update of product features Usage of features
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THANK YOU
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