Category: Startups

• “Sprint” [Day 2] (Book Review)

  

  Once you’ve set a target as part of Day 1 of your sprint, the next step is for you and your team to look at solutions. On the second day of the sprint, you’ll be coming up with solutions, and sketching them. This day consists of two key activities: (1) review ideas to remix and…

  marcabraham

  September 3, 2016

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

  Agile, design, lean, product management, startup, UX

• “Sprint” [Day 1] (Book Review)

  

  In my previous post I started looking at doing 5-day sprints to discover and test solutions for a problem that you’re trying to solve. This follows my reading of “Sprint” by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz. Once you’ve set the stage for a sprint, it’s time to kick things off: the first day of…

  marcabraham

  September 1, 2016

  Agile, Design, Digital Strategy, Lean, Measuring, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, product management, UX

• “Sprint” [Setting the stage] (Book Review)

  

  I personally find it very encouraging to see that more and more companies go down the route of experimentation and continuous discovery. Businesses are starting to realise that committing to a single solution upfront and implementing it in the hope that it will be successful can be a very risky strategy. “Sprint – How To Solve Big…

  marcabraham

  August 29, 2016

  Design, Digital Strategy, Google, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  design, Google, product management, strategy, technology, UX

• Midpoint: peer-to-peer foreign exchange

  

  I’m increasingly getting the sense that everything is possible in FinTech, at least from a peer-to-peer (‘P2P’) perspective. For example, marketplace lenders like Funding Circle and Zopa are all based on a P2P model whereby borrowers and lenders can transact directly. I recently learned more about P2P foreign exchange services by listening to an episode…

  marcabraham

  May 18, 2016

  Digital Strategy, FinTech, Product Management, Startups, Technology, User Experience

  FinTech, product management, strategy, UX

• Carspring (Product Review)

  

  I like cars. I like marketplaces. I worked at carwow. It’s fair to say that cars and marketplaces is a good combination for me. I was therefore very excited when I came across Carspring, a UK based marketplace for used cars. My initial thought was “why do we need another platform for selling and buying…

  marcabraham

  March 28, 2016

  Digital Content, Digital Strategy, eCommerce, Product Marketing, Startups, User Experience

  cars, design, product management, startup, UX