In our first few months working on Startup Giraffe, we’ve personally met with about 50-60 entrepreneurs.  Over the course of our meetings, we’ve often come across people in the same predicament: A Brilliant Entrepreneur (let’s call him Abe) with no technical experience has a great idea for a web or mobile app. Abe’s ready to quit his day job to devote himself making his app successful. He’s reluctant to go with a dev shop like Startup Giraffe to produce his product. He’s worried about putting off finding a technical co-founder until later because he thinks he’s just putting off an …

Since the launch of Startup Giraffe I’ve had the opportunity to speak to 50+ idea stage entrepreneurs.  I’ve been amazed at the diversity of good ideas that folks from outside of the startup scene have.  Through conversations with them I’ve realized that many could improve the way they think about launching products.  Here are some of the most common mistakes we see: Feature Set is Too Broad for a First Iteration Many entrepreneurs we’ve met want to build products for everyone.  Successful products start by having a tightly defined, niche audience and growing out from there. Products built for everyone …