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Ryan Mickle

Nashville, TN

Started Yardsale, FOBO (YC S11, acquired), Founderkit (side project), SaaS product (18 months from start to acquisition), product and community builder. Raised from top tier VCs, angel investors. Launched Lily.camera ($35MM in pre-sales, biggest launch of 2015). take ideas to launch, fast.

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Marketing User Research Fundraising Marketplaces Strategy User Experience Design Product Development Rapid Prototyping Lean Software Development

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Fundraising: Accelerators to VC

I've taken products from bootstrapped to venture funding, happy to walk through strategy and the benefits of each point along the decision matrix.

Rapid Prototyping and Early Stage Product Development

Most people have ideas, few can distill them to dead simple, intuitive, and effective products that make users happy. I'd be happy to walk you through how I go from a messy, rough idea to testable, MVP, by leveraging prototypes and user search early, and leaning into feedback to get quick validation and continually improve your business to maximize the impact of launch.

Launch and Press Strategy

Launch is a mad-dash, creative, hustle like hell experience that very few startups do extremely well. There's no agency you can hire to do it for you, to do it right. After launching products in basically every publication on the planet, I'd be happy to help you walk through a strategy that best suits your product and launch goals.

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How would you go about finding your intial target market/user group for a business social network?

Look at proven, recent examples. There is no one size fits all solution... it's different for every product and launch. Your ability to sniff out the solution to this will be a major factor in how successful your product is. Paul Graham used to ask "how will you get your first 100 users?" in YC interviews... if you couldn't answer it, you probably weren't getting in.

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