Validate the willingness of getting trained

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Customer Hypothesis: Bootstrap startup founders with Financial Background Problem Hypothesis: Can't design how to hire developers Solution Hypothesis: 1-on-1 training

Assumption: Want to get trained on how to hire developers Method: Pitch Metrics: 7/10

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Dom

Want to get trained? Yes

• At minimum, learn the technical term, part time, in a month
• Learn agile development

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Chris @ ivyspace

Role:

• Business Development
• Marketing

Want to get trained? Yes

• Don't want to know the coding
• Want to communicate with developers, pass the idea

What else?

• Expect 6 months to be fast idea-to-market
• Want a complete workflow before sending to market, not accept much as a bug
• No idea of half-done great
• Better to use problem hypothesis like how to communicate with developers?
• Investment Bank, Traders in JP Morgan would need to watch online training video to keep hours for license
• Generally know about visual, not agile development and lean startup
• Focus on UI, most likely the only thing that a finance guy can look at

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Tim @ inyspace

Role:

• Project Development

Want to get trained? No

• Not much a problem right now, had the developer team already

What else?

• A friend investing in something like top talents, which helps companies to hire high quality developers, better than elance / freelancer http://www.toptal.com/
• 80% hard on hiring developer, 20% on keep update from them
• Many people working in co-working spaces would say hard to look for developers, a platform like top talents may be useful

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Gary Wong

Role:

• Trader in UBS
• Colleagues are lazy in office
• 500K salary + bonus per year

Want to get trained? Yes

• Focus on development
• Know to do it himself, meaning speak the same language with the developer
• Had bad experience with odesk developer, spending two months of time in group buying site, paid US500 to end the contract
• Study on tree house himself on Ruby programming

What else?

• Learn with a team is more interesting
• Want to start again a new business for the past 4 years

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Christine Deschemin

Role:

• Used to be working in RDS & then UBS
• Engineering Background, Quantum Physics, studied in Harvard
• started learning financial stuff in bank
• Work in 4-people family investment business at the moment
• Studied GA mobile bootcamp (ionic) and several other workshops

Want to get trained? Yes

• More on backend stuff, focus more on technology
• like to explore more on development, want to get back to the circle

What else?

• Have several ideas (asset management across banks, classic food)
• not knowing about lean startup
• Introduced her to read books like Remote
• Suggested her to learn Meteor

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Karen Farzam (whub)

Role:

• Working in Finance before
• Studied Computer Science 10 years before
• Studied the 1st WDI in HK

Want to get trained? Yes

• Learn development herself, have control of what's happening

What else?

• Outsource to developer, would cost 100 thousand dollars, cheaper to take a course
• Trust is a big problem towards the outsource team
• Prefer face-to-face more than online, more commitment, surrounded by the community, can ask teacher