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Are you ready to take your product management skills to the next level? Join me as I dive into the 50 Days, 50 Case Studies Challenge! 🎯 What’s the Challenge? Over the next 50 days, I’ll be analyzing 50 diverse product management case studies. From startups to tech giants, each day will bring fresh insights and practical lessons to sharpen our PM skills. So today let's start the Day 1 Product case study where our first product is a slice of a fintech product Here is the complete case study about the Slice product #ProductManagement #Fintech #CaseStudy #CustomerExperience #TechInnovation

This post by Aviv Kerbel touches on challenges faced by startups aimed at niches like #Finops and #MLOps — namely, “Who is the champion of those products, who will adopt the products and take care of their assimilation in the company - developers? team leaders? CTO? CFO?” Part of the answer, though not the whole story, is to determine what enterprise grade applications the proposed solution will interoperate with. When founders haven’t sorted that out, they likely to be unclear on a path to adoption. Identifying that path is a highly domain specific challenge, which entails both understanding the entrenched players as well as the technical leverage offered by a potential disruptor. #TechnologyDiffusion

Anecdotes from Fractional CTO. Should you delete your MVP? Completely… One of the startup founders who decided to rebuild their product with a new team just deleted the old MVP since it gradually stopped working and nobody wanted to fix it. Obvious, right? Not that simple - the old MVP had more than a year of customers data and priceless insights which are completely gone now. For a customer facing product it would take a significant amount of time and effort to get it back. Lost time and opportunity. And it might cost even more. 🙊🙈 My advice to startup founders: Next time you decide to completely delete anything - talk to a startup advisor or get help from a fractional CTO. Data is your precious asset and it costs pennies to store it, while it costs months and effort to get it back. Now we’re starting from scratch and hoping for the best. Would you please talk to me if you decided to delete your data 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 #startuplife #fcto #techadvice

Sometimes a #startup needs to make tradeoffs to meet today's critical deadlines. But if your technology leadership is inexperienced you might be creating unnecessary problems for yourself down the road. The good news? A #fractionalCTO can put the skills you need within financial reach. #cto #startupfounder #softwarearchitect #softwareengineer

When we started C2V, we were not super focused on the geographic location of the startup. During Covid, we realized that being closer to our founders was a huge deal. Timezones, currency, language barriers, legal and a lot of other factors made it harder to consider an International deal vs a local one. Being close to our founders means we can really get to know their businesses and help them grow while building a personal relationship. It can be a bit trickier dealing with different rules and regulations in each place, and in the end we felt the benefits outweigh the challenges. Today, we're really focused on New York, Connecticut, the Midwest, Canada and some west coast locations but mostly care about B2B SaaS, Robotics and companies that are Dirty, Dull and Dangerous. What do you think? Is geographic focus important in VC investing?

Thank you Singapore Global Network for writing about what led our CEO Jx Lye to start Acme Technology, along with founding team ✨Sheng-Loong Su Chee-Liang Lim and Rensyn Hooi. To find out if he was on to something, he spoke with nearly a hundred fintechs and banks, as well as SMEs from diverse industries, from F&B to education to manufacturing. As he suspected, companies across the board were bogged down by unwieldy bank connectivity. They struggled with manpower and efficiency issues in tackling the relentless slog of manual reconciliation.  Clearly, automation was the answer. “If you could automate all of these processes,” Jx explains, “you have a digital trail that will also improve auditability and reduce accounting fraud.” This market need has been heightened by the rise of real-time payments, particularly in ASEAN, where the Regional Payment Connectivity Initiative currently enables bank-to-bank QR code transfers across the borders of eight countries.

Ever wondered how to leverage your personal network for startup ideas? In part two of our startup validation series, we discuss the "Friends, Family, and Trusted Network Round" of startup validation. Learn why talking to people you trust isn't just about compliments but a crucial step to refining your pitch and communication. Perfect your message and prepare for broader audiences with insights from this video: https://buff.ly/4aVzNub #startup, #startupvalidation, #saas, #smallbusiness, #businesslaunch, #growthhacking, #startuptips, #growthstrategies, #digitalmarketing, #growthtools

Great insights by Parshad Barot. An invaluable lesson for all builders: focus on what your users truly care about. Solve their immediate problems first, and perfection can follow!

My advisor Eric Perez surprises me. It's been too long since we IRL-ed -- my fault. 😐 My mind is often 1-hour away from melting: juggling biz model, investors, product, data, financial services. Eric's memory is like a database. We met Saturday and he reminded me what he shared with me across all those topics, whether months ago or day before. 🏋🏻♂️ Eric is a super software engineer and aficionado of emerging tech. He's got depth in self-development and coaching. We covered GTM (the main path), answers to questions I forgot to share, and covered that step by step. Hence, pitch updated. 🔀 What's comforting -- to me -- are people that communicate like a logic tree, even if emotions involved in the tree. Then I can simplify the tree, easier to remember. Eric just happens to do all that smoothly, often in seconds. I wonder if he notices 😄 Makes my life easier. #startups #advisors #gtm #tech

I wish I could go back in time and fix this one mistake. After months of building Liquify, we recently started beta testing for feedback, which has been incredible—users love the seamless experience and quick approval process. We spent 3 months perfecting our risk assessment algorithm, building complex investment valuation models, and optimizing for every possible edge case. But you know what our beta users cared about? "Can I get my loan quickly?" and "Is the app easy to use?" Most users didn’t care about “optimization for every possible edge case.” Don't get me wrong—robust systems are crucial when handling people's investments. However, we could have focused on our core features and gradually improved based on real user data. Realizing this earlier could have saved us tons of time, which could have been invested elsewhere. As founders, we often fall into the perfectionism trap. We want every feature to be flawless, every scenario accounted for. But sometimes, done is better than perfect. To all the founders out there: Your users don't need the perfect product. They need a product that solves their problem well enough, right now. Looking back, this journey has taught me that building a great product isn't about perfection—it's about solving real problems for real people. The next time you find yourself deep in the perfectionism rabbit hole, ask yourself, "Will my users actually care about this?" Sometimes the best product decisions are the ones that let you ship faster. #foundersmistakes #fintechfounder #startupjourney #Entrepreneurship #ProductDevelopment #StartupLessons #TechInnovation #FounderWisdom #Liquify #UserFirst #LAMF #loanagainstmutualfunds