6 Lean Startup and Growth Hacking lessons applied on my trip to Panama
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 8:50 am
6 Lean Startup and Growth Hacking lessons applied on my trip to Panama
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1st lesson: You must identify, investigate and experiment with the needs to be resolved in order to validate different hypothesesThe vacation part is easy, together with Karla Rebolledo my wife and Catalina my 6-year-old daughter we toured the old town, met and had lunch at the restaurant located on the Panama Canal and spent an afternoon in the wonderful with paradisiacal beaches that will surely remind you of the Pelican Island that appears in the 3rd season of the series "La Casa de Papel".
The business part was a little more complicated. We arrived in Panama on a Saturday afternoon and had our first meeting on Tuesday morning with a law firm, but before that, on kuwait mobile database Sunday, I had to meet José Luis Vieyra in person, a person with whom we had been working for more than a year on 2 projects remotely, all by videoconference/Chat/Email, but we had not had the opportunity to meet in person.
After getting to know each other, talking about our lives and Panama, we began to plan the meetings, which up to that point were 3, but 3 very important ones.
Lesson 2: Research who your Early Adopters can be
The basic idea was to introduce ourselves, José, a Mexican who lives in Panama and the writer, an Argentine who lives in Chile developing a technological platform for Panama called Alertarme , a platform that although it was being developed, for the meetings we only had a model (a set of static pages that represented our project).
The meetings were held with the intention of finding out the interest of law firms, whether there would be a real intention to make a future purchase and to obtain feedback.
Lesson 3: Developing with the User in Mind
So, the question was how to make an impact? How to demonstrate the value of the Alertarme platform and make a good impression by presenting a product that until then was in a mock-up form?
It was Monday, the first meeting was the next day and I was still thinking, how to make an impact? And in my head I was still thinking…we only have a model, and also, the deep-rooted nationalism of Panama, which has a population of approximately 4.2 million inhabitants and our platform is geared towards lawyers, both variables make this market closed, it is managed a lot by references, word of mouth, the network of contacts.
I recommend you see the post on LinkedIn
1st lesson: You must identify, investigate and experiment with the needs to be resolved in order to validate different hypothesesThe vacation part is easy, together with Karla Rebolledo my wife and Catalina my 6-year-old daughter we toured the old town, met and had lunch at the restaurant located on the Panama Canal and spent an afternoon in the wonderful with paradisiacal beaches that will surely remind you of the Pelican Island that appears in the 3rd season of the series "La Casa de Papel".
The business part was a little more complicated. We arrived in Panama on a Saturday afternoon and had our first meeting on Tuesday morning with a law firm, but before that, on kuwait mobile database Sunday, I had to meet José Luis Vieyra in person, a person with whom we had been working for more than a year on 2 projects remotely, all by videoconference/Chat/Email, but we had not had the opportunity to meet in person.
After getting to know each other, talking about our lives and Panama, we began to plan the meetings, which up to that point were 3, but 3 very important ones.
Lesson 2: Research who your Early Adopters can be
The basic idea was to introduce ourselves, José, a Mexican who lives in Panama and the writer, an Argentine who lives in Chile developing a technological platform for Panama called Alertarme , a platform that although it was being developed, for the meetings we only had a model (a set of static pages that represented our project).
The meetings were held with the intention of finding out the interest of law firms, whether there would be a real intention to make a future purchase and to obtain feedback.
Lesson 3: Developing with the User in Mind
So, the question was how to make an impact? How to demonstrate the value of the Alertarme platform and make a good impression by presenting a product that until then was in a mock-up form?
It was Monday, the first meeting was the next day and I was still thinking, how to make an impact? And in my head I was still thinking…we only have a model, and also, the deep-rooted nationalism of Panama, which has a population of approximately 4.2 million inhabitants and our platform is geared towards lawyers, both variables make this market closed, it is managed a lot by references, word of mouth, the network of contacts.