Work hacks for your startup
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Work hacks for your startup
- 1. WORK Matthew Ho, HACKS for your startup
- 7. ABOUT US Love TV series, movies & sports Head of Product Development, Tapmint Digital Producer background Worked online for 7 years Next Digital, Deloitte, Airbnb Twitter: @inspiredworlds MATTHEW HO
- 8. ABOUT US Innovation, rapid experimentation, complete solutions Native Tongue - First winning team in Startup Weekend in Australia 4 language game apps 400,000 downloads Twitter: @tapmint TAPMINT
- 9. 1. Mindset 2. Habits 3. Inbox Control 4. Hacking design 5. Presentation PRODUCTIVITY: Hack it!
- 10. 1. MINDSET 1. Prioritise 2. Ship 3. Decisive 4. Start simple 5. Deadlines
- 11. 2. PRODUCTIVITY HABITS 1. Routine tasks at set times 2. Re-use templates 3. Keep meetings to 20 minutes 4. Focus on 1 task - Pomodoro method 5. Turn off notifications
- 12. 2. PRODUCTIVITY HABITS 1. Standup - 5 mins 2. Review priorities 3. Eat the frog MORNING AFTERNOON 4. Answer emails 5. Personal errands
- 13. 2. PRIORITIES DETERMINING PRODUCT PRIORITIES 1. What are our business goals? 2. Create a list of user stories 3. Use ranking of 1-3 for user stories 4. 1 is critical and 3 is nice to have 5. What will be the most used feature? 6. M means Minimum in MVP
- 14. 2. PRIORITIES 7. If there are too many #1s use a scale of 1-5, then 1-10 8. Can create Epics to group user stories 9. Rank epics 10. Rank user stories within the epic DETERMINING PRODUCT PRIORITIES
- 15. 3. CONTROLLING YOUR INBOX 1. Pause incoming emails! Inbox Pause plugin 2. Answer emails after reading 3. Answer emails in batches 4. Respond in 5 lines or less. 5. Use Yesware template and track opens/ clicks.
- 16. 4. HACKING DESIGN - WHY? 1. Crowdsourcing design 2. Brainstorming with more people 3. Great at concept stage
- 17. 4. HACKING DESIGN - HOW? 1. Wireframes 2. Write multiple briefs & compare 3. Use a designer to review brief & prepare assets
- 18. 4. HACKING DESIGN - HOW? 4. Feedback twice a day - multi disciplinary 5. Bulk purchase credits 6. Tapmint designer adds more screens / tweaks
- 24. 5. OUTSOURCING PRESENTATION 1. Drafted summary 2. Emailed two weeks in advance 3. Reviewed the screenshots on Odesk 4. Communicated via email 5. Prepared some summary slides 6. Reviewed slides on google drive 7. Annotated feedback via google spreadsheet 8. Have worked previously together PROCESS
- 27. APPENDIX
- 29. APPENDIX Inbox Pause How to pause your email
- 30. APPENDIX To Do List Pivotal Tracker
- 31. Resources for your productivity hacks Rework by 37 Signals http://37signals.com/rework/ Remote by 37 Signals http://37signals.com/remote/ Pomodoro timer - http://tomato-timer.com/ Jason Allan on Getting stuff Done http://jasonallan.co/get-stuff-done-to-do- list/ Simple Productivity Hack, Tim Ferris http://www.businessinsider.com.au/tim- ferriss-productivity-hack-2014-6 How to email virtual assistants, Tim Ferris http://www.fourhourworkweek. com/blog/2010/11/02/virtual-assistants/
- 32. Tools that we use Email Boomerang, boomeranggmail.com Inbox Pause, inboxpause.com Yesware, yesware.com Project management, documents, communication Pivotal Tracker, pivotaltracker.com Slack, slack.com Google Drive, drive.google.com Google Hangout Sales EchoSign, echosign.com Quoteroller, quoteroller.com Pipedrive, pipedrive.com