Work hacks for your startup
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Matthew Ho outlines various productivity hacks for startups including mindset, habits, inbox control, design hacks, and presentation outsourcing. Key strategies involve prioritizing tasks, maintaining concise communication, leveraging tools like Yesware and Boomerang, and adopting methods like the Pomodoro technique. The document also features resources for enhancing productivity and tools used for project management and communication.
Work hacks for your startup
- 1. WORK Matthew Ho, HACKS for your startup
- 7. ABOUT US ● Love TV series, movies & sports ● Head of Product Development, Tapmint ● Digital Producer background ● Worked online for 7 years ● Next Digital, Deloitte, Airbnb ● Twitter: @inspiredworlds MATTHEW HO
- 8. ABOUT US ● Innovation, rapid experimentation, complete solutions ● Native Tongue - First winning team in Startup Weekend in Australia ● 4 language game apps ● 400,000 downloads ● Twitter: @tapmint TAPMINT
- 9. 1. Mindset 2. Habits 3. Inbox Control 4. Hacking design 5. Presentation PRODUCTIVITY: Hack it!
- 10. 1. MINDSET 1. Prioritise 2. Ship 3. Decisive 4. Start simple 5. Deadlines
- 11. 2. PRODUCTIVITY HABITS 1. Routine tasks at set times 2. Re-use templates 3. Keep meetings to 20 minutes 4. Focus on 1 task - Pomodoro method 5. Turn off notifications
- 12. 2. PRODUCTIVITY HABITS 1. Standup - 5 mins 2. Review priorities 3. Eat the frog MORNING AFTERNOON 4. Answer emails 5. Personal errands
- 13. 2. PRIORITIES DETERMINING PRODUCT PRIORITIES 1. What are our business goals? 2. Create a list of user stories 3. Use ranking of 1-3 for user stories 4. 1 is critical and 3 is nice to have 5. What will be the most used feature? 6. M means “Minimum in MVP”
- 14. 2. PRIORITIES 7. If there are too many #1’s use a scale of 1-5, then 1-10 8. Can create Epics to group user stories 9. Rank epics 10. Rank user stories within the epic DETERMINING PRODUCT PRIORITIES
- 15. 3. CONTROLLING YOUR INBOX 1. Pause incoming emails! Inbox Pause plugin 2. Answer emails after reading 3. Answer emails in batches 4. Respond in 5 lines or less. 5. Use Yesware template and track opens/ clicks.
- 16. 4. HACKING DESIGN - WHY? 1. Crowdsourcing design 2. Brainstorming with more people 3. Great at concept stage
- 17. 4. HACKING DESIGN - HOW? 1. Wireframes 2. Write multiple briefs & compare 3. Use a designer to review brief & prepare assets
- 18. 4. HACKING DESIGN - HOW? 4. Feedback twice a day - multi disciplinary 5. Bulk purchase credits 6. Tapmint designer adds more screens / tweaks
- 24. 5. OUTSOURCING PRESENTATION 1. Drafted summary 2. Emailed two weeks in advance 3. Reviewed the screenshots on Odesk 4. Communicated via email 5. Prepared some summary slides 6. Reviewed slides on google drive 7. Annotated feedback via google spreadsheet 8. Have worked previously together PROCESS
- 27. APPENDIX
- 29. APPENDIX Inbox Pause How to pause your email
- 30. APPENDIX To Do List Pivotal Tracker
- 31. Resources for your productivity hacks ● Rework by 37 Signals http://37signals.com/rework/ ● Remote by 37 Signals http://37signals.com/remote/ ● Pomodoro timer - http://tomato-timer.com/ ● Jason Allan on “Getting stuff Done” http://jasonallan.co/get-stuff-done-to-do- list/ ● Simple Productivity Hack, Tim Ferris http://www.businessinsider.com.au/tim- ferriss-productivity-hack-2014-6 ● How to email virtual assistants, Tim Ferris http://www.fourhourworkweek. com/blog/2010/11/02/virtual-assistants/
- 32. Tools that we use Email ● Boomerang, boomeranggmail.com ● Inbox Pause, inboxpause.com ● Yesware, yesware.com Project management, documents, communication ● Pivotal Tracker, pivotaltracker.com ● Slack, slack.com ● Google Drive, drive.google.com ● Google Hangout Sales ● EchoSign, echosign.com ● Quoteroller, quoteroller.com ● Pipedrive, pipedrive.com