Our MVP - Who says you can't fix ugly?
Danny Boice Co-Founder / Product & Tech
@DannyBoice | @SpeekApp
The Big Picture
** Yes, this was blatantly stolen from Ash Maurya & "Running Lean" - Be cool
First World Problem/s1. Beers
We were drinking on a Tuesday. Who does that?2. NYC
We were travelling on "business" for our boring corporate gig.
3. And somewhat off topic.....The experience of dialing into a conference call sucks and everyone hates it.
Solution Hypothesis
People would rather join conference calls by going to a link - like www.speek.com/danny - than by dialing a 10 digit phone number, then a conference id and/or a PIN.
Validating Assumptions
We did over 30 customer interviews before we designed a single pixel or wrote a single line of code.
** Yup, this too was shamelessly stolen from Ash Maurya & "Running Lean" - Sue me
Our Butt Ugly MVP• Designed it using Balsamiq the first day of SXSW
(While drinking that night too)• Developed it and pushed to AWS before we left SXSW
(Even more drinking)• Hid our ugly baby behind a free LaunchRock landing
page and let people in manually• Interviewed every single one of these early
users(Hoped they weren't drinking)• Wanna See it?
Wanna See It?
** This was definitely NOT stolen - trust me
Wanna See It?
** This was definitely NOT stolen - trust me
Fast Forward To Today• Seed funding - lead by 500 Startups• 2,000+ active users growing at 250 per week• 15% activation rate• $0 marketing spend to date• Lots of UserTesting.com user tests• Achieving product / market fit - then we scale
• Wanna see it?
And What Does The Future Have In Store For Us?
Holler At Me
My Twitter: @DannyBoice
Speek's: @SpeekApp