Ching-Mei Chen
Startup Labs Meetup
Feb 14, 2019
A Bit About Me...
New Jersey
Singapore
Pennsylvania
New York
Washington D.C.
Taipei/Mountain View
Los Angeles!
Jaime & John
... together since 2003 :-)
2008 - John on a Plane
2008-2011: Bootstrapped
... building Facebook Apps
2011: the Mobile rush
Pairs of Pair-Programming
Summer 2011
Batch 01
Various MVPs
The Birth of PicCollage
The Growth Of PicCollage
200 Million Installs
Top Countries: US, UK, Australia, Japan
Organic growth comes from:
- Product Marketing (ASO - keywords, screenshots, What's New)
- Thinking globally (localization)
- Word of Mouth, a.k.a. Make Them Love You
Building a Global Product
Think universally. (don't limit the product)
Be empathetic. (feel people's pain)
Stay humble. (you may not know what's best)
DO NOT Try to Be Perfect
Minimum Viable Product (MVP):
The MVP is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning with the least effort.
Steal like An Artist
Understand Your Customer
Listen, and they will come.
Building a "Culture"
good working environment
central location (convenience, food, social)
like-minded people nearby (coworking space)
host meetups (Cocoaheads, Android Taipei, etc.)
be open, and kind.
Running a Startup is like...
Surfing!
the surfer = your team
the surfboard = product
the wave = market
At the start,
it will feel like this:
And then, this:
But all of that, in the hope of achieving this:
Thank You!
@chingmei
UCLA Startup Labs
By Ching-Mei Chen
UCLA Startup Labs
Our Startup Journey
