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How to decide if Jamstack is the right choice for your MVP

Using Jamstack to build initial MVPs can improve product scalability, performance, and flexibility to use third party APIs.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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Operational toolkit for startups—our partner, Startup Stack

thoughtbot supports startups of every stage, size, and industry with their product strategy, design, and development goals and as a part of our Startup Stack Perk will be extending a discount and a lot of great resources.

Liz Dombroski, Sales Enablement & Bus Dev Manager at thoughtbot

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Co-Founder interview with SumIt

SumIt—a money management platform for freelancers and self-employed folks—undertook research & strategy work with thoughtbot's Ignite team to validate the right target audience and user needs before building a Beta version of their product.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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Financial guidance for startups

As our client, take advantage of our partnership with Forecastr, an online financial modeling tool designed especially for startups to forecast, plan, and pitch to investors. I can introduce you to get a services discount plus extra support.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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Scaling and maintaining a vaccine management app for pandemic activity

With unexpected rapid adoption of their PrepMod vaccine solution caused by the pandemic, MSPP credited thoughtbot with saving their business with quick development scaling support

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Event recap: Save time & money with Discovery

Recapping and key learnings for product leaders from our fabulous Discovery Sprint panel event

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Improving Eigen's UI/UX with a design system

Eigen Technologies needed to tackle design debt that had built up during rapid growth to ensure the quality of their product for the global clients who trust them for AI document processing.

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Future-proofing Harvard Business Review

HBR were looking to evolve their offer so that it remained relevant to their youthful, global, and digital audience while maintaining their reputation for premium quality content and education. thoughtbot's team helped to validate their approach and build a roadmap for full deployment.

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Delivering an in Clinic Experience via Mobile App

thoughtbot helped Airrosti Remote Recovery bring their in clinic experience to patients' mobile devices without sacrificing connections with their provider, expert help with therapy exercises, and the results they would expect from visiting a physical clinic location.

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Why Your Prototype Isn't Securing Investment

If you’re serious about raising money, a prototype is an important part of telling your story, but only if your prototype is high quality and based upon validation, feature prioritization, and strong development strategy. Here Associate Director Kelly Gebo shares some best practices we commonly bring to founders to help build a prototype that can truly raise investment.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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Advice for starting a health tech startup

Over the course of a year, Michael Sheeley, former founder of RunKeeper and now heading up Nurse-1-1 (a HIPAA-compliant chat platform that connects patients directly with nurses), talked with us on the Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast. In this post are some of the most compelling learnings from our conversations.

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How to launch a product in 8 weeks

Are you planning to launch a new web or mobile product in 2020? Tune in as thoughtbot's Founder and COO Chad Pytel dives into thoughtbot's playbook that has guided the design, development, and launch of hundreds of successful quality products.

Chad Pytel, Founder and COO, thoughtbot

Topics

Validate or Fail Fast

Direct user feedback is your best friend. Learn how to improve your feedback loops.

Learn more about Validation →

De-risk Your Business

Increase your likelihood of success by addressing big risks quickly and thoroughly.

Learn more about De-risking →

Accelerate time to market

Take advantage of opportunities to get your product into new users’ hands quickly.

Learn more about time to market →

Ensure Product Quality

Build for quality and you build for customer (and employee) loyalty.

Learn more about ensuring product quality →

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Product Design Sprint Guide

Answer your critical early business questions with our guide through the design and prototyping process.

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