Focus: If you want to drive yourself to get your minimal product out fast, then give us a date within 6 weeks and you can demo it at the Pollenizer office in front of our team and some of our partners/investors.
One of the challenges that we see regularly is people working on startups for far too long. If you’re working on it on the side (which means 9 to 5 – but 9pm to 5am) and you don’t have any partners or external people putting pressure on you, then you can take just as long as you want – which means forever. But you’re just guessing until you get it into the hands of a real customer.
One way we’ve found successful in pushing people to get a minimal viable product out is to pick a deadline for demoing. It’s an artificial date, but by announcing it to the world and inviting people, then all of a sudden there is an external reason to get it done.
To help people do this, Pollenizer is offering it’s office to you to run your demo. You give us the date, and we’ll invite some of our team, our partners and maybe even some of our investors, to hear your pitch and see the product.
Here is what you need to do;
- You must be a web (online, internet, mobile, ipad) business.
- Pick a date within 6 weeks from today – earlier the better.
- Write a copy of your web startup executive summary one pager.
- Email the date, the 1 pager, and a 1 minute video if you can to mick pollenizer com
- We’ll confirm the date, add it to our events section, and invite some people that we think will like to see the product.
- You chuck out as many features and bits you don’t need to demo. It’s OK and even preferred if it’s pretty ugly. We want to see wow value.
- Come and demo. 10 minute demo, 20 minutes of questions. Show your product quickly, then talk to us about your plans.
Looking forward to seeing your demo!