🧰 189: 2021 Resources for startups, developers share their insider knowledge, Platform for community building and more

Go / No-Go decisions

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Go / No-Go decisions

The quickest way to know if you should invest more time and resources into an idea is to define a success metric up-front and time-box it.

  1. Speak to your target research group and discount them if they take your product (make them part of your ā€œfounding members groupā€ and they will shape the product

  2. Define a metric that show’s people are getting use out of your product e.g. if it’s a booking system, the # number of people that make a booking, or if it’s a directory, the # of people that make an action to reveal the call/email info on a listing

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  • Denzel Walters shares his 9 steps to start Angel Investing right now. Link

  • Stephen Chapendama gives us an insight into how African Governments are reportedly blocking access to social media and messaging apps around election. There’s a lot of talk about this with Trump and whether platforms like FB and Twitter or even ISP’s should censor free speech but this smells of political incentives. Link

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  • Gosbert Chagula shares his 2021: Resources for Startups & SMEs. Link

  • Listen to developers share their insider knowledge on the technical challenges facing their teams, and what they're building. Link

  • App Annie reports that for the first time users are spending more time on TikTok than Facebook as per data from a new report on app usage. Link

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