My talk at BarCamp Auckland
July 19th, 2010 // 1:53 am @ Aymeric // 7 Comments
On Friday while doing some Facebook consulting, I was offered/pushed to do a presentation the next day at BarCamp 4. I am posting the slides here for your convenience: UPDATE: That’s pretty cool, my slides got featured on the homepage of SlideShare! Tips from a retired Facebook app developer View more presentations from Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli. [...]
Category : Entrepreneurship & Startups &Startup tips and tricks
Customer Discovery Tools for Lean Startups
July 2nd, 2010 // 8:05 am @ Aymeric // One Comment
Running a lean startup? You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase. Survey and Feedback tools Although people tend to think of Survey Monkey or Survey Gizmo when I mention Survey, I actually think that Google Forms is very good already, and it is free. Google Forms [...]
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The Marshmallow Challenge, on the importance of prototyping
June 27th, 2010 // 12:18 pm @ Aymeric // No Comments
Today I found this link on Hacker News about “failing” early and often and the Marshmallow challenge. (I don’t like the term “fail” because everyone has their own definition of failure and success, and what you might see as a failure might be the best experience someone is having and enjoying, instead we could say [...]
Category : Entrepreneurship & Startups &Online experiments
Founder Mastermind Breakfasts, how we do it
June 26th, 2010 // 4:44 am @ Aymeric // No Comments
Since last year, I have been organizing some casual breakfast meetings with other entrepreneurs based in Sydney. The next one will be held this Monday (28th June) and we are looking to extend our invitations to new people so it is a good opportunity to share how the event is organized. Why a mastermind meeting? [...]
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Lean startups, beware the social debt!
June 25th, 2010 // 3:50 am @ Aymeric // 3 Comments
What is Technical Debt? In the tech world, we are familiar with the concept of technical debt. Technical debt represents areas in the code that makes changing something more time-consuming and hinder the stability of the system. Introducing the Social Debt I would like to introduce you to something I experienced in my online ventures [...]
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The Kayakist Entrepreneur
June 7th, 2010 // 5:01 am @ Aymeric // One Comment
(picture from Thomas Jones) When you are building something people want, they pull you towards your project. You receive messages, feedback, questions, complaints, etc… When you have to push people to use your project and get feedback, you experience much more resistance. This is the Flow in action. It makes whatever you do smoother (at [...]
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Is the incompleteness of your application hiding behind the term ‘Simple’?
April 28th, 2010 // 12:35 am @ Aymeric // One Comment
simplicity. Everybody likes simplicity, developers and users (I have a simple view of the world). I like simplicity too: I enjoy donating or throwing stuff away I resist buying more stuff when I travel, for one week or for one year, I only take a 30L backpack I enjoy reading ZenHabits.net The point I want [...]
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Wise Labs, the mission statement
April 23rd, 2010 // 1:51 pm @ Aymeric // No Comments
When I was looking for a way to provide value to people while building a profitable business, I listed the four following high level options: I could help people/businesses make more money I could help people/businesses save money I could help people/businesses save time I could help people/businesses better use their time Because time is [...]
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Not all good opportunities are good to take
April 21st, 2010 // 1:10 pm @ Aymeric // One Comment
Last year, I was seriously busy, as busy as anybody who tries to run a business with thousands of customers/users while having a full time job. (Having actual users is really an important factor in one’s busy-ness, because if you don’t have any users you can work at your own pace without anybody’s expectations to [...]
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My frustrations
April 20th, 2010 // 2:12 pm @ Aymeric // 4 Comments
As an entrepreneur, you develop a seventh sense for things in your life that are not smooth because this is where there are business opportunities. I was in the bus when I decided to list my current frustrations (I used the MindMap iPhone application SimpleMindX). Click on the thumbnail to see the full size image: [...]
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