Not So Secret Sauce S2 EP6: Navigating Technical Debt In Early-Stage Startups

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The Not So Secret Sauce Podcast

Founders Factory Africa

19 episodes

9 months ago

The Not So Secret Sauce Podcast and Newsletter feature insightful insider exchanges between investment specialists, venture builders and innovation architects at the Founders Factory Africa 'Mothership' and early-stage startup ecosystem innovators of all stripes. The show, brought to you by Founders Factory Africa, is where we "open source the secret sauce".

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Not So Secret Sauce S2 EP6: Navigating Technical Debt In Early-Stage Startups - Product Validation

The Not So Secret Sauce Podcast

29 minutes

1 year ago

Not So Secret Sauce S2 EP6: Navigating Technical Debt In Early-Stage Startups - Product Validation

Not So Secret Sauce S2 EP6: Navigating Technical Debt in Early Startups: Product Validation

In this final episode of a two-part series on the Not So Secret Sauce Podcast, Kevin Odongo, Senior Software Architect at Founders Factory Africa, and Fabian Elliot, Africa Startup and Venture Capital Business Development Manager at Google Cloud for Startups, get into the detail of product validation once a product is in market, and the tools available to founders once there.

What to look forward to in this episode:

Defining product validation in the ecosystem context [04:39]
Product validation tools [08:08]
Design, develop, test, release, feedback, and plan [12:54]
Details about the Google Cloud for Startups program [13:51]
Leveraging Google Cloud support [18:52]
Going back to the drawing board [20:33]
Knowing when to iterate and when to stop [24:11]
The role of the Product Manager [26:19]

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