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Podcast: Lessons from building Firmhouse for 10-years

Roughly a month ago, Maria Bahamam a.k.a Madam Rotterdam stopped by for an interview. Maria was part of the first Firmhouse Venture Lab cohort.

How to use surveys the right way for testing your new business idea

Customer development surveys tend to have a bad reputation nowadays: they’re known as costing a lot of time to create, and giving confusing answers at best.

How you can hack Lean Startup into your Agile process

I was visiting the Agile By Example conference in Warsaw last Tuesday and had some interesting insights thanks to that.

Using the Jobs to be Done push & pull (forces) diagram to understand your product’s potential

If there’s one concept from Jobs to be Done theory that has helped me understand customer behaviour better, it must be the Progress Forces Diagram.

“Get out of the building!” Participating in a Startup Academy weekend..

Last weekend I participated in the Startup Academy, an event organised by Leon Pals at the Progress Bar, with the aim to..

What an entrepreneur can teach an academic

At the moment I’m working for a small company making software to help entrepreneurs build businesses, called Firmhouse.

Mapping your riskiest assumptions to find out what to test first

Before you can design a good experiment you need to decide on what to test first, by extracting the riskiest assumptions your Plan A is based on.

To make a product work, fit it into the lives of your users

Humans are creatures of habit. We prefer to stick to the things we know, and only switch to new solutions if our current solution is really inadequate...

How startups are like professional poker

The startup has become a commodity as the cost of running a business has decreased tremendously and the available knowledge and tools for it have become...

Startups win by learning fast

In the past 3 years we have been tracking the progress of many startup closely, because we organised mentoring across multiple startup accelerators and...

How to drive your startup into the ground without knowing it

I’ve coached a ton of founders in the past years and the one thing which bothered me most is that founders can get a lot of things wrong...

How Jobs to be Done help you to segment based on causality, not correlation

One of the ways in which Jobs to be Done theory has helped me a lot is by changing my focus from correlation* *to causality.