What we’ve learnt while failing DaisyPiValerian Banu (@valibanu)

• 2 failed startup ventures: Daisy Pi & Nivalis

• Product Analyst @ uberVU via Hootsuite

• Organiser of Product Tank Bucharest

• Startup Spotlight 2013 Alumni

3 lessons learned from Daisy Pi

Framework for starting to build

products

Product focused teams

Monitoring

Surveillance

Smart

Daisy Pi

(source: wattpad.com , Taylor_live)

Structure

The big picture

Paint a consistent alibi

Writing is thinking on paper

—-William Zinsser

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Own it

Step up

Get people under the same roof

Driven and positive attitude

Don’t neglect Marketing

Brand management

Facebook vs. Email Spam

How am I going to do things better the second time around?

Valerian’s Framework Product Development Equivalent

Own it

Write your ideas down

Paint a consistent story

Get people under the same roof

Marketing is your friend

Product Manager

Writing specs

Building the product roadmap

Scrum stand-ups

Product Marketing

I get asked to review pitches every day, multiple

times a day … Don’t focus on perfecting your

pitch, focus on the prototype. The goal of your

company is not to have a great pitch, but to have

a great product … The best pitch you can make is

“Let me show you what it does”.

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—Guy Kawasaki

Why isn't Bucharest more like Silicon Valley? There are many contributing factors but there is

one that I think Romania (and Europe in general)

misses the most: product people.

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—Vladimir Oane

Valerian Banu, @valibanu

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