Stefan Djordjevic – Mini Startups Course Download
Stefan Djordjevic – Mini Startups Course Download
The course is taught by Stefan Djordjevic, Founder @ Martian and Former UX Designer @ Apple / Project Analyst @ NASA.
Worth it’s weight in legal docs alone!
We paid not 1, not 2, but 3 corporate lawyers for guidance and legal docs. You get these documents along with the course.
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Curriculum
- Final Homework Assignment! 142 KB
Intro
- Why you should take the Mini Startups course 2 mins
- Why I started the Mini Startups course 2 mins
- Why I started Mini Startups (pt. 2)
I. UI/UX Design Module
- Interesting Slack app that probably has a lot of users 3 mins
- Designing Meme Doppler in less than 30 minutes 30 mins
- Meme Doppler competitors 6 mins
- Designing Zebra App 13 mins
- Zebra + Meme Doppler designs (Sketch file) 21.9 MB
- Building a company live on Reddit – StudyHub 47 mins
II. Business Module
- Why I’m bullish on Slack apps 2 mins
- Listen to your customer’s problems instead of their solutions, because chances are they don’t know what they want 3 mins
- I’ve never even started a company. What do I need? 8 mins
- Issuing equity to founders – maximize motivation! 3 mins
- Listen to but also build for your customers 3 mins
- Partner with the high intelligence, high integrity, high energy people 2 mins
- The missing key trait in a co-founder – character! 2 mins
- The people you work with should have Principal (AKA founder) mentality 2 mins
- Give people only as much access as they need, no MORE! 2 mins
- Starting a shell + subsidiary company 2 mins
- Novo vs Azlo – which challenger bank is better for business? 2 mins
- Use LinkedIn automation tool Linked Helper for finding software devs 2 mins
- Finding software engineers on UpWork 2 mins
- II. Business Module: Quiz
- Become a better founder through “mini” angel investing 2 mins
- Coming up with app ideas – find demand 4 mins
III. Legal Module
- IP Assignment – have everyone sign it ASAP 2 mins
- Cease and desist letters – don’t panic! It’s not that scary 2 mins
- Memo of Understanding makes it easier to highlight roles/responsibilities 2 mins
- Independent Contractor Agreement – an exchange of value between two parties 2 mins
- NDAs – Unilateral or Mutual? 2 mins
- Unconscionable documents, be fair with your employees/contractors 2 mins
- Do what’s right for the company as a whole, including clear communication 3 mins
- Operating Agreement – this details how your company operates 5 mins
- Start with the highest leverage document and then move downwards 4 mins
- Royalty Contract – incentivize the long term, but put a cap on it! 4 mins
- Legal Docs
- Term Sheet AMA w/ Brian Alford
- How to get an Instagram username someone else has or is inactive
- IV. Growth Hacking Module
- App Decision Matrix.png 3.43 MB
- Growth hacking – is your app worth marketing? 1 min
- What is the REAL definition of product-market fit? 2 mins
- App Decision Matrix Part 1 – Yik Yak revived 4 mins
- App Decision Matrix Part 2 – Yik Yak competitor? 2 mins
- App Decision Matrix Part 3 – Zebra, an anonymous chat app 5 mins
- App Decision Matrix Part 4 – Meme Doppler, a weather app for memes 7 mins
- App Decision Matrix Part 5 – Visa Information, a VISA app for travelers 7 mins
- How do I come up with an app idea? iOS App Store 14 mins
- 7 guerrilla tactics to market your B2C App 4 mins
- Growth hacking on reddit (via niche spamming) 4 mins
- Growth hacking on Reddit Public Access Network (RPAN): 1,263 unique watchers, 65 upvotes, 2 downvotes, 9 new followers
IV. Growth Hacking Module: Quiz
- Cold calling roadmap – 8 phone calls to close a deal 23 mins
- Cold calling – Honesty is the best sales tool 1 min
- Slack App Ideas
- Pomodoro Timer – another Slack App favorite 3 mins
- Poll Cat – A funny Slack app 3 mins
- LiveCall – my high-conviction Slack App 5 mins
- Every Slack app organized by Alexa Ranking as of April 2020
- A combined iOS + Slack app
- Mini Startups Slack App – Pomodoro Timer
- Mini Startups Slack App – Poll Cat
- Mini Startups Slack App – LiveCall
