The 8 Must-Haves for Building Valuable Products and Services

Many entrepreneurs (regardless of type of business) don’t anticipate and plan for their success or know how to tap into resources to help them scale. They get past the “idea at the kitchen table” stage and feel a huge sense of momentum. Yet, often they freeze or worse yet all their hard work goes down the drain from a lack of preparation for the next phase (building a team, raising capital, transitioning their role, thinking strategically vs. tactically, etc).

Build, Buy & Partner: Different Ways to Scale Your Product or Service Offering

This talk explores the difference between product management and product partnerships. The goal is to empower entrepreneurs and product development professionals to think strategically about when to develop a solution or partner with other companies to unlock unique value. While product managers work through the trade-offs of prioritizing feature development, product partnership professionals live at the intersection of business development and product management. They are often tasked with product growth through partnerships, leading to feature development rooted in partnership integrations to drive product growth. In this talk, we explore various models, including white-labeling, grey-labeling, affiliate, and referrals, the various revenue models enabled by each, and their pros and cons.

Plugging Leadership Gaps to Get Your Next Round of Funding

Rarely do you find a startup with a balanced founding team! Either it skews towards super technical founders who need more business and sales experience, or the founding team skews towards heavy business acumen with limited technical expertise and experience leading technical teams. In this talk or panel, we discuss the core skills founders should have or add to their team to ensure all aspects of execution are firing on all cylinders.

MVPitch: New Venture Prototyping: Design Is Cheaper Than Development

In the early stages of bringing a new product or service to market, people often rush through or ignore entirely proper UX research and UI Design. In this talk, the speaker will discuss validating a product idea without writing a single line of code. Through deep design and prototyping entrepreneurs can test their product or service ideas with their target consumers while validating the product, marketing, and sales personas to uncover friction and objections to adoption before building your product. With a complete design, you also have the byproduct of a better roadmap for development to utilize best and execute your development goals.

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