Mentorship and product leadership for founders on innovation , strategy and management
Mentorship and product leadership for founders on innovation , strategy and management
Vipin Makhija
Kast, US
4 recommendations
Advises in:
English
Customized for:
Germany
Detailed description
1) Validating the Opportunity: Ensure you're solving a real problem through regular, thorough research to understand customer pain points. Assess market size and potential to ensure the problem is significant and worth solving, and that customers are willing to pay for it.
2) Building the Early Product: Focus on progress over perfection. Prioritize your roadmap, break it down into smaller phases, and build a prototype for feedback before scaling up.
3) Going to Market: Success requires more than just launching. Develop marketing strategies early—consider product positioning, messaging, pricing, channels, and partnerships. Constantly test and refine with customers.
We will start with discovering, validating and articulating the customer Needs. This is typically led by a fractional CPO (Chief Product Officer/ Product Consultant/Founder) at startups with everyone else's collaboration. Let's call this the Product Strategy stream.
Through this exercise, we should expect to build a foundation for data and research backed product strategy, execution roadmap, customer and market research, capabilities and prioritization framework, pricing and go to market startegies.
Here are some areas we will cover: Customer research, needs discovery, understanding the current system fully, industry and competitive analysis, gap analysis, product vision, functional roadmap and scope, AI capabilities.
Michele Lofton
Michele Lofton recommends for "Digital product management"
Vipin has a very clear and strategic way of thinking. He is able to cut through the noise and help you identify the exact missing piece—"your solution."
Paul Blakely
Paul Blakely recommends for "Digital product management"
Vipin's knowledge of the investor and startup worlds has been invaluable. He has a talent for simplifying complex concepts which made our conversations very meaningful. His ability to provide advice across a diverse range of topics—from defining the bigger vision to execution—gave us confidence to tackle challenges we hadn’t considered before. Having someone like Vipin in your corner in the critical early stages of building a company can't be overstated.
Michele Lofton
Michele Lofton recommends for "Digital product management"
Vipin has a very clear and strategic way of thinking. He is able to cut through the noise and help you identify the exact missing piece—"your solution."
Vipin Makhija
Kast, US
Mentor
Office Hours
Monday - Friday, Sunday
16:00 - 17:30
For over 15 years, I've led product and data teams, blending the grit and passion of startups with the scale and maturity of large public enterprises. As the founder of Kast, an innovative mobile AI solution for real estate agents, I am leveraging my extensive background to solve the industry’s most pressing challenges.
As a strategic thinker and entrepreneur, I excel in defining product vision, strategy, and execution through data-driven decisions. My leadership has been instrumental in creating delightful products, global teams and digital transformations.
I love giving back to the startup community and helping other entrepreneurs scale and succeed, through mentorship at accelerators, advisory and thought leadership.
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