Product managers and product thinking are essential elements of successful startups, but you don’t have to wait until budget allows you to hire an experienced product leader to start using the smarts that come along with them.
Product thinking is all about being obsessed with customers. Our customers are founders, and we’re obsessed with using a product mindset to make founders successful.
We’re product managers with extensive startup experience who support founders who want to do the work they’re passionate about and achieve their goals without giving away equity prematurely or unnecessarily.
Our fixed price consulting and cohort options focus on the four key destinations of the startup journey:
Our services are tailored to your startup needs, so book a time to chat with us to discuss and let’s get you moving!
We get it, each startup has its own pace, size, and budget. That’s why we’ve created the Bus Pass – a flexible option that lets you use our services and programs, however it suits you best.
With the Bus Pass, you purchase prepaid hours in bundles to use these hours however you want across our range of consulting projects, services, and group programs. This way, we can give you tailor-made solutions that match your needs.
The cost per hour for your Bus Pass depends on how many hours you buy. All passes come with a 60 day expiry. This gives you the flexibility to ebb and flow with our help as needed, giving you the freedom to hop off the Product Bus when time or budget demand, and then hop back on when you’re ready to go again!
See some examples of the projects you can use your Bus Pass hours on below.
A great starting point for early stage startups is our “Roadworthy Check” Discovery session, which can be applied to evaluating an existing product or an emerging idea.
The Roadworthy Check is a set program designed to give founders and startup teams high level feedback on each of the following components:
It’s a one-off consulting engagement that gives you holistic feedback on your current state or commercial prospects of your idea with recommendations for the suggested next steps that will bring you the most value as you move forward.
We’ll work to understand the current health of your idea or product, help you test your value proposition, target market, and road map, and provide honest, constructive feedback on the challenges and opportunities we see based on our work together.
The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is an essential step in the startup journey. It allows you to ensure you’re investing in a project that is likely to be successful by testing key elements of your ideas with your target audiences.
The Product Bus “Pathway to MVP” program provides strategy advice and project management to identify key work streams and milestones to ensure you’re selecting the right type of MVP, only spending what is required, and maximising your return on the entire process.
All projects are customised to your requirements
Whether you are planning for your initial launch or looking to scale your existing market reach, or break in to a new market, our Go To Market projects can provide a kick start or an injection of experience to help you reach your targets.
Our unique cohort programs bring together small groups of founders at similar stages of the startup journey to explore a specific stage in interactive sessions that accompany self-paced thinking and planning tasks.
Our programs are a two-way-street – you learn not just from your mentors and facilitators, but from your fellow learners as you share challenges and ideas, and workshop solutions together.
Each program consists of four face-to-face (online) group sessions, plus 1:1 mentor sessions at the start and finish of the program.
