Category: Startups
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What is Guerrilla Testing?

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with “guerrilla testing”, but I’ve been doing it for a few years now and it’s a great way to get some quick user feedback on your product or idea. To me, guerrilla testing means going into a coffeeshop or another public place to ask people there about…
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Learning from Roman Pichler about Agile Product Strategy and Roadmap

A few months ago I did a course titled Agile Product Strategy and Roadmap by Roman Pichler. Roman is a London-based Agile & Lean product management expert, who published the book Agile Product Management with Scrum a few years ago. Roman’s course was all about how to best create a product strategy and an effective product…
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Site review: Carwow

“Be a happy car buyer” is what it says on the homepage of http://www.carwow.co.uk/. The promise here is that people will “Experience new car buying without any of the hassle or uncertainty”. Carwow’s proposition is effectively a reverse marketplace; enabling users to specify the car that they would like to buy and attracting offers based on their specifications. Once…
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Thread (Product Review)

Thread looks like the perfect site for fashionable men or those who perhaps want to become a bit more fashionable. It was founded by serial entrepreneur Kieran O’Neill who explained to GQ at the end of last year what Thread is all about: “what’s special is that you have access to the exact same stylists that celebrities or wealthy…
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How TransferWise is changing the way in which we transfer money

TransferWise is one of those companies where you can just sniff groundbreaking success. TransferWise is a London-based peer-to-peer money transfer service which was started in January 2011. Earlier this week, the company was in the news because of rumoured discussions with well known Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, which could result in a valuation…
