Posts tagged with "Start-up & Scale-up"

Value-driven Business Analysis Tools, Techniques and Methodologies

It would be impossible to cover the entire spectrum of business analysis tools and techniques with anything short of an encyclopedia-sized volume. In this article, we will explore a subset of business analysis techniques that we have integrated into our digital consulting at DO OK, using a methodological toolbox developed over thousands of hours working with many different clients across a wide variety of industries.

03.11.2020, 9 min read: Dmitrij Żatuchin

How To Avoid The Most Common Risks That Startups Face

Did you know that only 1% of all startups turn into unicorns? Furthermore, it takes them on average six years to earn this status, and it’s often an arduous and challenging road. The secret behind their success lies in their ability to quickly alleviate their mistakes and ensure that the product they’re working on truly responds to customer needs. In today’s article, we’re going to cover the seven common risks that startups face on their way to market success and we’ll show you how you can avoid following in their footsteps.

01.10.2020, 7 min read: Katarzyna Leszczynska-Bohdan

How To Know If You Need To Attend A Startup Workshop

Gone are the days when a good idea and a lot of hard work were enough to create software products. If you want to build a successful startup, you need market validation. Why? Because turning ideas into fully functional digital products requires a lot of time and money. Luckily, attending a discovery workshop for startups can help you decide whether your idea is worth investing in. In today's article, we're going to discuss why startups should consider attending a discovery workshop. Before we proceed, let’s take a look at what a startup workshop is.

17.09.2020, 6 min read: Katarzyna Leszczynska-Bohdan

Actify - Wellness and digital health solution for a healthier life

Over the past few years, living a healthy lifestyle has become the thing. The trend of apps offer health-related services on smartphones is overflowing. Mobile apps and devices have become our personal fitness trainer and portals to wellness needs. Actify has been striving to help live healthier in small steps for years.

22.06.2020, 4 min read: Katarzyna Leszczynska-Bohdan

Why are value-focused business strategies able to drive your growth?

As a result of recent learnings, I've diagnosed the main challenge thousands of firms currently have: How to align their roadmaps in the ecosystem affected by pandemics? The stated hypothesis bolds out the important aspect of customer values. In this article, I explain how did DO OK pivot in its consultancy offering to help businesses change their service or product development strategies. I reveal some details of two methods: Business Value Chart (™), and Value-Focused Product Planning Workshops.

17.06.2020, 4 min read: Dmitrij Żatuchin

5 popular Chat SDKs that make your app powerful and why you need one

If you consider implementing a chat within your app, then you’ve got a few options: develop a solution suited to your needs, or choose from a few ready-to-use tools. I was curious about the features available, and the most popular solutions on the market. In this article, I share a general overview of the possibilities of several SDK solutions.

27.05.2020, 4 min read: Tomasz Kuzioła

Mindfulness in business

Conferences like Slush, TechCrunch or WebSummit are great opportunities to get news from the industry, share experience and discuss case studies. One of the essential parts of such events is meeting people and listening to them, but not necessarily selling.

30.11.2018, 2 min read: Katarzyna Leszczyńska-Bohdan

Expo for React Native - speed up your development

Take a closer look at Expo XDE, an open-source free set of development tools built on top of React Native. It makes your mobile app development faster and less painful, from initiating a project, through working with device API, to publishing and updating the app. It includes a graphical IDE, a CLI, and a huge set of ready to use functional components that cover the most popular mobile scenarios - push notifications, device features such as camera, maps, handling biometrics, and much more. Expo is one of the YCombinator-backed startups (class of summer 2016).

13.11.2018, 10 min read: Szymon Juskowiak