Several No-Code tools are taking over. Bubble, Airtable, etc. are on the map now. From the product manager’s (PM) perspective, these new players offer several opportunities. In this article, we will show you how PMs’ work could change through these tools. One of the tasks of a PM is to investigate the customer’s pain points. …
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One of our first endeavors was a bee-IoT-tracker named aproneX. We pitched the tracker to investors with a big vision of using bees as biosensors to monitor the environment. They asked for a big market, and we wanted to give them exactly that. Behind the scenes, the story was different, though! For about a year …
Early focus and full commitment to a single project is passionate, but is it reasonable? One important thing we learned is: don’t bet on one horse and don’t limit yourself by an early focus on a single topic. Predictions are hard. Compensating this uncertainty with even more focus on one thing doesn’t eliminate the risk. …
Social businesses are on the rise. Enough about fairy tales of unicorns, the time of the zebras has come. Fast growth is out, building impact is the order of the day. At least when you consider the hype and voices around social businesses. Can your business build impact too? What does it mean for bootstrappers? …
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Every company wants excellent employees for each department. Talking about: Experts! That can be hard. Especially for small businesses. They have to look for all-rounders because they often don’t have the capacity to hire specialists for every domain. But the Jacks of all trades have to be fed with new learnings. So how can you …
The single most important thing for building businesses is to generate the right type of traction at the right time. A lot of conventional advice relies on ways to build traction that you don’t fully control. From our experience, semi-automated outbound outreach is unfairly good for generating many sorts of traction. So take our hands, …
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