Online Webinar: How to get from an idea to a first low quality prototype?

This is the first webinar from the Webinar Series “How do I turn my Startup Idea into a business?” hosted by Swiss Startup Association and Holycode.

We’ll explore the crucial steps in the product development journey, including ideation, concept validation, and rapid prototyping. Discover the secrets of transforming your innovative concepts into tangible low-fidelity prototypes and navigating the early stages of product development.

Use examples and cases of MOVU & Clanq (Leads), Yamo (Product Kitchen), Neon & Knip / Smallpdf and Dagsmejan

Date: 15 November

Time: 12.00-13.00

Speakers:

Catarina Dahlin co-founded Dagsmejan in 2016 with the mission to bring improvements to sleep quality and thereby life quality with smart sleepwear. She’s helping customers in over 80 countries to sleep better. Dagsmejan is selling 90% of their sleepwear direct to consumer through their own webshops. Even throughout the covid crisis the company has seen a hyper growth more than tripling the turnover year on year.

José Amado-Blanco was a founder of the biggest fresh baby food scale up in Europe, yamo. He was the COO and in charge of Operations and Supply Chain. He left the business a few months back and is now building his second startup. He attended the University of applied sciences in Zurich and is a trained food scientist.

Laurent Decrue is the Co-CEO & CFO Holycode. He’s an entrepreneur, investor and board member with strong background in fast growing digital technology companies in ecommerce, marketplace, SaaS & software development in general.

Dennis Just (Smallpfd) is an entrepreneur and general manager with an obsession for beautiful products, scalable services, personal and organisational growth.

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Save the date and times for the next webinars of the series already!

Webinar 2: How to get from a 0-Revenue Prototype to 1 Mio in ARR

Speakers: Laurent Decrue (Holycode), Joel Capt (Peakora)

Content: ICP, Product-Market Fit, etc.

Date: 14 December

Time: 12.00-13.00


Webinar 3: How to get from a first prototype to your MVP/POC platform

Speakers: Laurent Decrue (Holycode), Nenad Nikolic (Holycode), Luis Wittwer (Carvolution)

Content: Build the Core Flows, integrate a variety of other tools via API or excel upload/download, what are the pitfalls to avoid?

Date: 17 January

Time: 12.00 – 13.00

Webinar 4: Team building / Co-Founder

Speakers: Laurent Decrue &Judith Wemmer (Planted) and Gregory Inauen (Grape)

Content: Finding your Co-Founders, what to look for? What are the first hires you need? How do you pay them? What are the mistakes you have made / pitfalls you fell into?

Date: 01 Feb

Time: 12:00-13.00

Webinar 5: Bootstrapping vs. Venture money

Content: Team + MVP in place, first Revenues coming in. Should I bootstrap or take Venture money? Views from Founders and Investors.

Date: 28 February

Time: 12:00-13:00


About Holycode:

Holycode is a Software Development company founded in 2014 based in Switzerland, Serbia & Romania that focuses on delivering all kinds of development services to Startups and Scaleups and was founded by serial entrepreneurs.

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