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Product Development
Founder’s Institute
Summer 2016
Tour Guide
Dan Arkind
Founded JobScore, an
online jobs startup
15-years recruiting,
mostly for startups
Recruiter, built JobScore for myself
2003 Idea
2006 Working product
2008 Public Launch
2013 $2M run rate
Bootstrapped, no outside investment
Over $1M hard cash investment
Offshore development team in Brazil
Idea
MVP
Product /
Market Fit
Idea
Profit
The valley of death
1. Team
2. Market
3. Product
Software takes 10 years
You are going to
create, sell and support
some crappy software
Products require
behavioral change
Feel the
PAIN
Focus on the
PERSON
Understand the
CONTEXT
Follow the
$$
GIVE
them
SOMETHING
GET
PAID
No $$ =
DEATH
Idea
Profit
The valley of death
1. Team
2. Market
3. Product
It’s not easy
It takes a team
TRY
everything
Figure out what
you suck at
Ask for
HELP
Find
mentors
Interaction Design
Visual Design
Quantitative Market Research
(your cofounder)
• Write the press release first
• Define the experience
• Write the FAQ & help docs
Werner Vogels
CTO - Amazon.com
Work backwards
How do I figure out the
End State?
Idea to Offering
Better feedback
• Organize your thoughts
• Make sure it’s easy
• Cheap, quality feedback
Do it manually
Work with what you’ve got
Invent as
little as
possible
(stand on the shoulders of giants)
Steal shamelessly
Build half a product
not a half-assed product
Start Ugly
Make it easy
It’s not about
YOUR FRIENDS
Don’t believe
your own BS
Get clicks
 Crop
 Callout
TURK
it
Question your
questions.
Definition 
Development Plan
Listen
Focus
Trust your gut
What you think
matters
doesn’t matter
What can we have working
by the end of the week?
By the end of the month?
Advisory
Council
Introduction
Treat your time as a precious,
valuable commodity
$300 / hr
Prioritize working software
Release early and often
Be in the
same room
Write stuff down
and share it.
Hire
great
writers
You want whiners.
ROI
“How long does that take?”
Turn interviewees
into advocates
Have good taste:
No one cares
more than you
Create your
Own
Paper Prototype
 Who is the user?
 What’s their problem?
 What am I supposed to
accomplish?
 Homepage Headline
 CTAs

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  1. Work backwards… Got the idea from a Blog post from Amazon’s CTO where what they do internally is write the press release for a new product or feature and then work towards it.
  2. Work backwards… Got the idea from a Blog post from Amazon’s CTO where what they do internally is write the press release for a new product or feature and then work towards it.
  3. Work backwards… Got the idea from a Blog post from Amazon’s CTO where what they do internally is write the press release for a new product or feature and then work towards it.
  4. Work backwards… Got the idea from a Blog post from Amazon’s CTO where what they do internally is write the press release for a new product or feature and then work towards it.
  5. Work backwards… Got the idea from a Blog post from Amazon’s CTO where what they do internally is write the press release for a new product or feature and then work towards it.
  6. Work backwards… Got the idea from a Blog post from Amazon’s CTO where what they do internally is write the press release for a new product or feature and then work towards it.
  7. Work backwards… Got the idea from a Blog post from Amazon’s CTO where what they do internally is write the press release for a new product or feature and then work towards it.