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Why product teams are struggling with Jira, Asana, and Notion—and why we haven't moved on (yet)

Jira, Asana, and Notion track work but don’t accelerate it. Fast teams need tools that drive execution, not just visibility.

Methods

Startups

How AI Turns Chaos into Order: Structuring Unstructured Data

The internet is a goldmine of unstructured data stored in various formats—articles, social media posts, videos, audio files, and more. But harnessing this data is like drinking from a firehose: chaotic, overwhelming, and unfiltered. That’s where AI steps in, transforming this mess into structured databases that unlock actionable insights and power innovative solutions.

Startups

Learning

Case Study: Crafting and Executing the Go-To-Market Strategy for FinQuiz

With FinQuiz, our goal was to create an Open source tool that would help fintech companies ensure regulatory compliance through an investor appropriateness assessment.

Case studies

Strategy

Rethinking GTM for B2B AI Companies in 2024

As AI reshapes industries, traditional go-to-market (GTM) strategies no longer apply. In this post, we explore how B2B AI companies can adapt their GTM approach for 2024, focusing on early positioning, transparency, and constant iteration to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Learning

Blueprint: Creating and executing a Go-To-Market Strategy for Fintech startup

After collaborating with numerous fintech founders, we've noticed a recurring challenge: developing a focused and viable Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy for an early-stage fintech startup. This strategy should leverage their strengths while fitting within industry norms, timelines, and available resources.

Strategy

5 Critical Considerations When Doing Product Discovery for a Fintech Product

Fintech apps are taking over the world. No seriously, they are the mainstream now. Just a few years back banks in the UK were struggling to provide usable digital solution (read: web/mobile platform) and most of the things were done over the counter in the branch. Long gone times, thank the Universe for that.

Strategy

Empowering Women in Tech: Embracing Resilience Against Burnout

As we honour International Women's Day, we acknowledge the vital need to spotlight not just the ...

Methods

Personal growth

Launching Right: 5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid in Validating Your Startup Idea

As a startup founder, navigating the idea validation process is a critical step in ensuring that ...

Startups

Learning

Guides

MVP

MVP Strategy: Avoiding the Swiss Army Knife Pitfall

In the startup world, selecting the right Minimum Viable Product (MVP) can be a game-changer. While the Swiss Army Knife's ability to perform multiple functions is ...

Guides

Learning

Methods

Startups

Strategy

It Takes Two To Tango: The Synchronised Steps of Market and Product in Startup Success

In the fast-paced world of startups, achieving success is often like performing a perfect Tango dance. It's all about the right mix of innovative products and...

Startups

Learning

Methods

Strategy

MVP

Demystifying MVPs: Insights from a Former Startup Founder Turned Discovery Developer

Embarking on a startup journey? Bringing your first Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to life is both exhilarating and ...

Personal growth

Startups

MVP

Find Your Perfect Match: A Startup's Guide to Selecting Web Agencies

7 tips to help you find the right partner for your startup

Guides

Startups

How We Built a Mobile App MVP with Flutter, Firebase, and LottieFiles

As a team of experienced MVP wizards, we understand the importance of delivering exceptional products to our clients within a reasonable timeframe. That's why...

Startups

Methods

Learning

MVP

Streamlining Technical Debt Management with the Strangler Pattern

Unlock the secret of how the Strangler Pattern can present a powerful solution for gradually replacing portions of a monolithic system, mitigating risks associated with complete rewrites.

Guides

Learning

Strategy

Methods

Startups

Tackling Technical Debt: The Two Major Sources and Five Proactive Steps to Manage It

Sharing the whys and how-tos of managing technical debt which is crucial for the long-term success of a company by implementing these 5 steps ...

Learning

Methods

Startups

Strategy

Technical Architecture for Startups: How JITA Can Help You Succeed

Just-in-time software architecture is an approach that allows businesses to quickly adapt to changing market conditions and customer needs, fuelling growth and ...

Learning

Startups

Guides

Methods

We asked ChatGPT 5 questions about the startup-sphere future! Here are the answers

We sat down with the most popular bot on the block to chat about what the future holds for startups. This is what it told us ...

Interview

On the road to change from QA to PM

What is it like to be able to switch careers, but remain in the same company? Let's find out...

Personal growth

TypeScript vs JavaScript with NodeJS

What are some of the benefits of using TypeScript vs JavaScript with NodeJS? In this blog post we explore the benefits of using TypeScript and how it helped us better align with our project's goals.

Learning

IWD interview with Danijela Divac

From living across different continents and having versatile jobs to finding her way back home and leading product management at d.labs. Here is Danijela Divac's story.

Learning

IWD interview with Katarina Ferme

From a psychologist helping disadvantaged children to get educated, to the Chief People officer at a fast-growing tech company. Here is Katarina Ferme's story.

People

Leveraging NFTs as Seed Capital

Are NFTs taking over the world of investments? NFTs have been filling the headlines for almost two years now

Learning

Startups

Elevating the product with a complete brand redesign

In this blog post we cover a complete brand redesign of Laundryheap, an on-demand laundry company with the hope to inspire other founders to start rebranding their products.

Startups

Learning

Case studies

How to market your firm post-Covid

Raising awareness of your business can be one of the biggest challenges for small firms that lack large marketing budgets. Omar Merlo and Jaka Levstek outline how it can be done.

Marketing

Startups

The what, who and why of a design system

A well-crafted design system used with the right intentions will amplify your product. It will help the team focus on tough problems by not sacrificing the speed and quality of the product.

Learning

Methods

Prototyping - where to start?

As we already established in the previous post - everything is a prototype. With that in mind, you should try to start prototyping as soon as possible to understand, communicate or improve your ideas. While this article tries to demystify the how-to part, you should not be discouraged to start right away, even without knowing the perfect process. Remember, everything is a prototype.

Learning

Startups

Write once, run anywhere: when is it worth it?

Uncompromised solution represents a solution that doesn’t compromise the experience of the end user. When the end user is a consumer, that means that the application should offer native look and feel. When the end user is a library consumer, developers should enjoy the same experience a fully native library would offer.

Startups

Methods

Learning

Challenging the status quo of development practices - A hands on guide to improve your QA processes

No matter how long you’ve been a QA tester, I bet you can still feel the excitement that a new project brings. However, each project comes with its own set of challenges, but the ultimate challenge of them all is challenging your standard set of development practices and adopting a new approach.

Methods

Learning

Guides

What is your team spirit animal? 5 step process to boost your remote team morale

Having a great team culture is of substantial value. There are many vital areas that the company needs to take into account when building, and more importantly, to maintain the work culture.One, reasonably small, but also an essential part of the culture, is how each team identifies their values and beliefs.

Methods

People

Startups

d.labs’s remote-first culture: values, initiatives and tools that paved the way

If you told me in early 2020 that d.labs is going to become a remote-first company, I would not have believed you. We were office animals. We loved to come together, there was a real energy to our offices and we often stayed after work to hang out, play video games, chat or go to the bar across the street for beers. We took pride in our teamwork, relationships, and connections.

Learning

People

New Employee Onboarding For Product Teams: A Success Template For Welcoming New Team Members

An indispensable template for remote-first companies used to onboard new product team members and make them feel included, informed and empowered from the first day they join your team.

People

Guides

Templates

Why do we prototype?

"If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings" - famous saying at IDEO. On average a new product is launched every minute of the day. How do we know what will work?

Learning

Startups

Metrics tools for early-stage startups

What metrics tools is your startup using to look at data and gain valuable insights?

Startups

Learning

Cross-team collaboration: great engineering cognitions

Is cross-team collaboration important and how can you achieve it?

Learning

A guide to Google Tag Manager for non-tech people

Google Tag Manager is probably one of the most underutilized, misunderstood and misrepresented tools on the web. Beneath all its marketing emphasis, there exists a highly flexible tool that is only limited by one's creativity.

Learning

Our 5 favorite podcasts: entrepreneurship edition

Entrepreneurial and business podcasts are on the rise. They are a great way to learn more about entrepreneurship and hear the inspiring stories and different experience that founders have. We made a selection of podcasts that we like to listen to and would like to share it with you .

Startups

Find your Unique Value Proposition by using the Strategy Canvas

What is a strategy canvas tool and how can you use it to find your unique value proposition?

Strategy

Methods

Startups

Promise-market fit

Want to see if you can get to product-market fit? It might sound crazy, but launch the company first and figure out the product later.

Startups

Best practices for remote workshops in 2020

Remote workshops are the single most popular way to communicate both internally and externally. Having in mind they are not easy to conduct, what can you do to ensure the success of your remote workshops? Here are some of the practices that have worked well for us and our clients.

Learning

Methods

Top 10 apps that make our lives easier and work more productive

Following great feedback on our top 10 business books list, we’ve repeated the exercise once more. This time we compiled a list of all the apps that we use to make our lives & work easier and better. On it, you’ll find workout coaches, meditation guides, productivity apps and other useful smartphone tools. If only one of them brings you joy and pleasure, we consider our job done!

Learning

ABC of online marketplaces: types, growth tactics & emerging trends

Learn how online marketplaces evolved and what it takes to build one today: the key success factors, important trends and tactics to create a sustainable business.

Startups

Learning

Top 10 business books we’ve read this summer - and that we genuinely recommend

Holidays without books are like cocktails without garnish – plain and boring. At d.labs, we read loads of books this summer, so we decided to compile a list of titles that we found particularly interesting and inspiring. Happy reading!

Learning

“If the business model works, you can solve everything else”

How one d.labs’ client - and friend - bootstrapped his company to become the leader in the online laundry business

Startups

Case studies

Real-world lean application development

Rapid application development has always been burdened by assumptions of unmaintainable and unscalable output. Rightfully so; cutting corners and fast pace are risky in engineering and too soon do errors start to pile up and refactoring discussions begin.

Startups

Methods

Design thinking, lean start-up, agile: how to read from the startup Bible

Learn and understand the mechanics of building a start-up in detail. What do all the methodologies actually stand for? How do they fit together? And, finally, how they can make your business more efficient and faster?

Startups

Methods

Getting out of the building while you Stay home

Doing remote customer discovery in the new reality of social distancing. Product teams need to accept extreme uncertainty and focus only on the immediate next step. In the end, it’s never been our job to find the perfect solution, but to try and solve customers’ problems with a best-effort approach.

Methods

Startups

Lessons we learned as a newly remote company

The story of how we adapted our processes, communication, and culture to become a fully-remote team practically overnight. The preventive measures and internal guildelines kept us safe during the COVID-19 outbreak and also have helped other companies deal with this difficult situation.

People

How we got to our customer discovery-as-a-service

Early listening to your future customers does take you out of your comfort zone, but the benefits of it are significant. They de-risk your endeavours, make you a more authentic company builder and vastly improve your conversations with investors.

Startups

Methods

How being an introvert can help you with customer interviews

6 techniques to help Product people who feel uneasy or reluctant to do customer interviews. Getting out of the product-building comfort zone is not easy for everyone, but by using this process, you'll be doing continuous customer interviews in no time.

Startups

d.labs — rebranded!

The experience of co-creating over 50 businesses taught us that it was time to make the brand about what we learnt and what we believe in. So we want back to the essentials. Our deliverables might be design and code, but our work is people.

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News and Views from our Team

Why product teams are struggling with Jira, Asana, and Notion—and why we haven't moved on (yet)

How AI Turns Chaos into Order: Structuring Unstructured Data

Case Study: Crafting and Executing the Go-To-Market Strategy for FinQuiz

Rethinking GTM for B2B AI Companies in 2024

Blueprint: Creating and executing a Go-To-Market Strategy for Fintech startup

5 Critical Considerations When Doing Product Discovery for a Fintech Product

Empowering Women in Tech: Embracing Resilience Against Burnout

Launching Right: 5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid in Validating Your Startup Idea

MVP Strategy: Avoiding the Swiss Army Knife Pitfall

It Takes Two To Tango: The Synchronised Steps of Market and Product in Startup Success

Demystifying MVPs: Insights from a Former Startup Founder Turned Discovery Developer

Find Your Perfect Match: A Startup's Guide to Selecting Web Agencies

How We Built a Mobile App MVP with Flutter, Firebase, and LottieFiles

Streamlining Technical Debt Management with the Strangler Pattern

Tackling Technical Debt: The Two Major Sources and Five Proactive Steps to Manage It

Technical Architecture for Startups: How JITA Can Help You Succeed

We asked ChatGPT 5 questions about the startup-sphere future! Here are the answers

On the road to change from QA to PM

TypeScript vs JavaScript with NodeJS

IWD interview with Danijela Divac

IWD interview with Katarina Ferme

Leveraging NFTs as Seed Capital

Elevating the product with a complete brand redesign

How to market your firm post-Covid

The what, who and why of a design system

Prototyping - where to start?

Write once, run anywhere: when is it worth it?

Challenging the status quo of development practices - A hands on guide to improve your QA processes

What is your team spirit animal? 5 step process to boost your remote team morale

d.labs’s remote-first culture: values, initiatives and tools that paved the way

New Employee Onboarding For Product Teams: A Success Template For Welcoming New Team Members

Why do we prototype?

Metrics tools for early-stage startups

Cross-team collaboration: great engineering cognitions

A guide to Google Tag Manager for non-tech people

Our 5 favorite podcasts: entrepreneurship edition

Find your Unique Value Proposition by using the Strategy Canvas

Promise-market fit

Best practices for remote workshops in 2020

Top 10 apps that make our lives easier and work more productive

ABC of online marketplaces: types, growth tactics & emerging trends

Top 10 business books we’ve read this summer - and that we genuinely recommend

“If the business model works, you can solve everything else”

Real-world lean application development

Design thinking, lean start-up, agile: how to read from the startup Bible

Getting out of the building while you Stay home

Lessons we learned as a newly remote company

How we got to our customer discovery-as-a-service

How being an introvert can help you with customer interviews

d.labs — rebranded!

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