1. Wearable IoT World Labs
Product Management and Strategy
By Raj Ojha
raj@mobilecloudlab.com
www.linkedin.com/in/rajojha
Founder - Mobile & Cloud Labs
2. Who we are ?
Mobile & Cloud App Development
Product & Services since 2011.
End markets include FMCG, Education, Transportation, Web e-commerce platforms, F&B, Media, Finance,
Sports, Music
San Francisco, USA
Chennai, India
Mobile platform expertise in both iOS and Android.
And complementing Web apps.
Mumbai, India
Hybrid Development Model
5. Top Three reasons - 90% of Start up Fail
Back to the Future!
• Lack of Product or Market Fit
• Lack Capital or Cash
• Poor Strategy
6. Product Management - Business Justification
• Market Size and Growth(be specific not broad)
• Problem & Solution
• Features to Revenue (MVP) to Roadmap Features to Revenue
• Target Use Cases and Acceptance Criteria
• Competitive Landscape – Value Proposition
• List of 50 to 100 Customers & Customer Feedback
• Domain expertise
• Dependencies or Ecosystem definition for success
Skills with People
7. Product Manager : Evolutionary vs Revolutionary
Who are you?
• Enabler or Tackler
• CEO or Product Guy
• Intuitive or Follower
8. Go to Market Strategy
• Identify the Closest Channel to End Customer to sell your product
• What/Who/How/Where are you selling/promoting/Target Market?
CAC = Cost of Acquiring a Customer
LTV = Lifetime Value of a Customer
Find a scalable higher level of monetization than your cost to acquire
customers
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10. Offer to Start ups for MVP Mobile App
Build your App for $7K in 5 Weeks/5 Features/5 Deliverables
• Come with an idea in an email: We will build you an app with reusable assets
• Pick a platform: iOS / Android / Web 100% Native development
• Deliverables: Use Cases/Wire frames/UI Design/Test Cases/ Ready-for-submission app
• APIs, if any, should be provided by you when UI design starts, we will give you definitions
• Screens: iOS: iPhone 4”, 4.7”, 5.5”, (latest, latest - 1 OS) Android: You pick 3 devices &
Web: Chrome, Safari, Firefox (latest, latest - 1 versions) Responsive
• Software License + Cloud + Options to be paid for by the customer
Do read the article as it provides good insights in to the product and strategy mindset
Others: Competition/Legal or Patent Issues/Founders Fall out
Are you a enabler or a tackler – is someone who is continuously driving product features but more importantly adoption leading revenue after the first build
I have not found a CEO and Product Guy doing the same function after the first round of product is built.
Good Product folks are usually very intuitive and visionary they see the end before they begin
Is the product a Need or a Luxury?
Positioning in Target Market through E-Commerce(Consumer) or
Partner(Enterprise) who is selling in that market
CAC -Entire cost of your sales and marketing
Schedule does not include AppStore / PlayStore submission
Technical rejections included free-of-charge
Functional rejections not in-scope Deployment / Rollout not in-scope