- Global Day of CodeRetreat 2013 (Dec 14)
- Weekly hackathons in combination with Code for Hampton Roads, 757 iOS and Hampton .NET User Group
- How do you develop your business model? What type of research do you do? How do you choose your market(s)?
- Have you used crowd sourced funding (i.e. Kickstarter, etc.)? If so, how well has it worked?
- What's the best way to create a balance when you're transitioning from client work or full time job to working on a product?
- True or false?: Client work is a rite of passage or necessary evil to gain the knowledge/experience/authority needed to launch a product. 1.Can you build a business in the App Store?
- How do you handle the sadness that results from working on a product making no money, when you could be consulting or woking full time for much more?
- What sucks about trying to sell products? Is there anything that's not so great about selling products (vs. consulting or a full time gig)?
- Describe a week of managing your product. How much time on customer support vs. customer dev vs. product dev/new features?
- Any key tools that you can't live without for running the biz (i.e. customer.io or grasshopper.com, etc.)
- How much of the Lean Startup stuff have you had success implementing? What do you measure and depend on for determining your success/growth? Do you A/B test every new feature? Remove unused features? Create "empty" features that lead to a voting matrix for guiding your future development? etc.
- When would you give up or decide "it's not working"?