Alex Ponomarev Passionate about software development and building great products http://www.alexponomarev.me 350 posts
Audience 27 Nov 2019 · 4 min read You Don’t Need to Get on Oprah. Instead, Find Your Smallest Viable Audience How would you like to be offered a spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote your product to millions of live viewers? How much would you pay for that? Read more
Team management 26 Nov 2019 · 5 min read Why Your Startup Should Use Google Docs to Collaborate on Documents Documents and collaboration are a huge part of any business, especially a technical startup. In a startup, everything from legal documents to meeting notes and feature descriptions need to be Read more
Lean 25 Nov 2019 · 4 min read How to Validate Your Idea with an Educational Product In a previous article, I explained why it doesn’t make sense to build a software product as an MVP if you have limited resources and little-to-no background in software Read more
MVP 24 Nov 2019 · 4 min read Should You Build a Core Team Before Building an MVP? A prospective client of mine recently told me that his biggest struggle as a founder was dealing with procrastination. Procrastination happens when you have a task but it’s scary, Read more
Marketing 23 Nov 2019 · 4 min read How to Develop a Landing Page in a Cost-Effective Way Many years back, I was working as a system administrator for a small company, where no one on the team but me could add or change a thing on the Read more
Startups 23 Nov 2019 · 4 min read The Five Reasons Why Startups Succeed, According to a Legendary Investor Today I was researching the factors of startup success when I came across one of Bill Gross’s TED Talks. If you don’t know Bill, he’s a legendary Read more
Launch 22 Nov 2019 · 3 min read To Avoid Launching to Crickets, First Make Sure That People Actually Want Your Product Too often, product launches get postponed again and again because the product isn’t perfect enough. There are bugs. The design requires tweaking. Last-minute testing reveals that payment processing doesn’ Read more
MVP 22 Nov 2019 · 4 min read The Three Biggest Misconceptions About MVPs Throughout the years, as I’ve built products for startups — each of which started as an MVP — I’ve worked with many founders who had major misconceptions surrounding what MVPs Read more
Agile project management 21 Nov 2019 · 4 min read What’s the Optimal Size and Composition of an Agile Team A team must be small to remain agile. The smaller your team, the fewer instances of miscommunication you’ll have. Plus, it’ll be easier for you to resolve issues Read more
MVP 20 Nov 2019 · 4 min read Why Your MVP Probably Shouldn’t Be a Software Product More often than not, it’s not a good idea to build software as your minimum viable product. Building software is risky. It’s time-consuming. It’s expensive. Especially if Read more
MVP 19 Nov 2019 · 3 min read Four Myths About What “Viable” Means In Minimum Viable Product The goal of any business is to provide value to your customers. And the only trustworthy indication of whether you’re doing that — of whether your minimum viable product is, Read more
Product management 18 Nov 2019 · 4 min read Product Management Tools You Can Use for Your Tech Startup The words “product management” mean something different for different kinds of teams. For tech startups, product management involves the following: listing all of the features you want to build in Read more
Customer Development 16 Nov 2019 · 5 min read Steer Clear of Failure with Customer Development What do you think is the №1 reason that startups fail? According to CB Insights, it’s building products that nobody wants. Imagine spending month after month poring over a Read more
Prototyping 15 Nov 2019 · 3 min read What Is Pretotyping and How Is It Different from Prototyping and building MVP? The term “pretotype” was coined by Alberto Savoia, former Engineering Director at Google. Ass he explains on his website, the main advantage of building a pretotype is to accelerate learning Read more
Prototyping 14 Nov 2019 · 4 min read What Is the Difference Between a Prototype and an MVP? Using electric car manufacturing as an example, I’ll illustrate the difference first: A prototype for an electric car might be a wooden, life-size model of the car. The model Read more
Marketing 13 Nov 2019 · 4 min read How SaaS Start-ups Can Acquire Their First Customer I’ll tell you a secret. My team and I are building a SaaS start-up. It’s a tool that tracks the time spent on tasks and projects in small Read more
Communication 12 Nov 2019 · 4 min read Three Tips For Organizing A Productive All-Hands Meeting I’m part of a remote team. Rather than collect everybody for a virtual meeting when somebody has a question, we have a policy to communicate non-urgent requests to each Read more
Lean 11 Nov 2019 · 4 min read The Key Difference Between Lean and Agile Strategies Being confused about the distinction between lean and agile strategies is common; their goals overlap (both aim to eliminate inefficiency and value individuals and their contributions) and so many lean Read more
