Testing Ideas, Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping

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Articles and videos to hep startup entrepreneurs prototype (wireframe) to build and test product ideas (faster)

• Article A 4-step Guide To Validate Your Product Idea Without Investing In Development
• Article Why You Should Start Prototyping—Right Now
• Article Building Backstage Capital Cover
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Index Cards, Post-it Notes and Graphic Design - DIY - tools, shortcuts

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a collection of tools for Graphic Design - Index Cards, Post-it Notes and Graphic Design - DIY - tools, shortcuts

• Article The Incredible Creative Power of the Index Card – Featured Stories – Medium

Entrepreneurship: use ads to validate your ideas Before Building a Prototyping

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Entrepreneurship: use ads to validate your ideas Before Building a Prototyping

• Article How to Validate Your Idea for $10 With Facebook Ads
• Article Validate your product: 19 market testing and market validation tactics (plus 7 tools for validating)
• Video How Liquid Death's Founder Started A $700 Million Water Brand | Founder Effect
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Getting started with your (tech) Startup - WITHOUT a technical cofounder

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tips and advice for entrepreneurs getting started with your (tech-based) startup idea -- without a technical co-founder (yet) A collec...

• Video Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem || Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy
• Article The Reality of Breaking Into Startups | by Ruben Harris
• Video Storyboards, Paper Prototypes, and Mockups | UC San Diego
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Solving Problems - How to Start a Startup

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a collection of advice for entrepreneurs getting started -- with focus on Solving Problems - How to Start a Startup

• Video Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem || Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy
• Video Everything We Teach at YCombinator in 10 Minutes
• Article General Thinking Tools: 9 Mental Models to Solve Difficult Problems
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What Feature to Build next? - Using Metrics for Tech Startups

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tips and suggestions on how to use metrics and measurements to decide -- What Feature to Build next? - Using Metrics for Tech Startups

• Video How to Measure Your Product - Suhail Doshi from MixPanel || YC
• Article 16 Startup Metrics – Andreessen Horowitz
• Article The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product
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examples of startups that began WITHOUT a technical cofounder

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tips and advice for entrepreneurs getting started with your (tech-based) startup idea -- without a technical co-founder (yet)

• Article I Sell Onions on the Internet - Deep South Ventures

Tools for Rapid Prototyping - Wireframing, Sketching, Paper Prototypes, Mockups

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Articles and videos to hep startup entrepreneurs prototype (wireframe) to build and test product ideas (faster)

• Website Welcome to InVision Studio - InVision
• Website Hotjar: Website Heatmaps & Behavior Analytics Tools
• Article Stop Talking and Start Sketching: A Guide to Paper Prototyping. || Marvel
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Sketch app - Tool for Rapid Prototyping - Wireframing, Sketching, Paper Prototypes, Mockups

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Articles and videos to hep startup entrepreneurs prototype (wireframe) to build and test product ideas (faster)

• Article Sketch raises $20m in Series A funding from Benchmark
• Website Sketch - Download Sketch
• Website Platforma Web Wireframe Kit

design Sprint - Rapid Prototyping

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Articles and videos to hep startup entrepreneurs prototype (wireframe) to build and test product ideas (faster)

• Article The Design Sprint — GV
• Article Agile Sprint Planning for Product Management | Aha!

Technical Cofounders

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a collection of articles and resources about Technical Cofounders

• Video Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice
• Video Building an Engineering Team YC Startup School - by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar

Examples of Tech Startups - founded by non-technical cofounders

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a collection of articles and resources with Examples of Tech Startups - founded by non-technical cofounders

• Article Tyra Banks And More Put A Million In The Muse (2014) – TechCrunch
• Article It took 10 years for Airbnb to reach full-year profitability - Recode

Travel and Creativity

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Travel and Creativity

• Article Why we travel - The Guardian
• Article For a More Creative Brain, Travel - The Atlantic

Wireframing and Rapid Prototyping

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Articles and videos to hep startup entrepreneurs prototype (wireframe) to build and test product ideas (faster)

• Article How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design
• Website Balsamiq. Rapid, effective and fun wireframing software. | Balsamiq
• Article The modern web design process

What Feature to Build next? - using customer interviews for feedback

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What Feature to Build next? - using customer interviews for feedback

• Website User Interviews (website) - The User Research Recruiting Platform for Teams
• Website Canny: Customer Feedback Management Tool
• Article The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time - Lessons Learned || by Eric Ries

Coding, developer tools, resources - Backend As A Service, Firebase, others

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Coding, developer tools, resources - Backend As A Service, Firebase, others

• Website Railway - Bring your code, we'll handle the rest.
• Website Front-end code hosing: Firebase Hosting
• Website Vercel - Develop. Preview. Ship
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MVP - minimum viable products and rapid prototyping

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Articles and videos to hep startup entrepreneurs prototype (wireframe) to build and test product ideas (faster)

• Article Don’t Serve Burnt Pizza (And Other Lessons in Building Minimum Lovable Products) | First Round Review
• Article I use these 8 tools to build MVP for my clients – Medium
• Article A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It’s a Process – Y Combinator
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Brainstorming and Creativity

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Brainstorming and creativity

• Article Why You Should Brainstorm for Questions, Not Answers
• Website MindNode
• Article Why Walking Helps Us Think