Category: Startups

• Abra (Product Review)

  

  The main reason why I’m excited about Abra – a US-based peer-to-peer payments startup – is that people become tellers or ‘human ATMs’ who expense cash at hand to the recipient. The Philippines is a key target market for Abra, and it facilitates seamless payments between residents of the US and the Philippines. Recent stats show…

  marcabraham

  October 3, 2016

  FinTech, Mobile, Online Trends, Startups, Technology, Uncategorized, User Experience

  FinTech, mobile, startup, technology, UX

• PayKey (Product Review)

  

  I recently came across PayKey and have been intrigued since in the combination between banking and social media. PayKey’s vision is “to make payments in all social chat possible.” To this end, PayKey provides a secure payment keyboard which people can use when they’re in a social network of choice (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, Twitter, etc.). The…

  marcabraham

  September 20, 2016

  FinTech, Mobile, Online Trends, Social Media, Startups

  FinTech, mobile, startup, technology

• “Sprint” [Day 5] (Book Review)

  

  The fifth and final day of the sprint is all about interviewing your (target) customers and learning from how they interact with your prototype. Interview “Five is the magic number”, is the point that Knapp, Zeratsky and Kowitz are making in Sprint with regard to the number of people to interview. The value of this…

  marcabraham

  September 11, 2016

  Agile, Design, Lean, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, productmanagement, strategy, UX

• “Sprint” [Day 4] (Book Review)

  

  Once you and your team have created storyboards, you’ll spend the fourth day of the sprint creating a prototype. In “Sprint”, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz talk about a “fake it” approach to turn a storyboard into a realistic prototype. Fake It The fourth day of your sprint is all about illusion; instead…

  marcabraham

  September 10, 2016

  Agile, Design, Lean, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, product management, UX

• “Sprint” [Day 3] (Book Review)

  

  Once you’ve starting to think about possible solution – during Day 2 of the sprint – the next step is to take your huge pile of solutions and decide on which solution(s) to prototype. In the morning, you’ll review and critique the different solutions and select those solutions which you feel have the best change…

  marcabraham

  September 7, 2016

  Agile, Design, Lean, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  design, Google, lean, product management, UX