{"id":810,"date":"2014-08-14T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2014-09-23T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T19:22:06","slug":"summer-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/summer-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer startup: Why summer is the best time of the year for a startup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up our post about\u00a0tactics\u00a0to keep your users on board and engaged in your app<\/a>, we’re giving you, here and for free, 9 tips to stay focused and bring out the best from summertime to boost your startup.<\/p>\n

Startupxplorers, find out our 9 reasons\u00a0why summer is the best time of the year for a startup.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Summer is the best time to\u00a0implement new code<\/h3>\n

Testing code is both examination and execution and takes focus. Summertime is the right moment of the year, it lets your developers\u00a0focus without pressure.<\/p>\n

Implement.<\/p>\n

Hard.<\/p>\n

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2. The right time to iterate<\/h3>\n

Iterate hard.<\/p>\n

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Faster…<\/p>\n

3. Enough time and focus to design your exit strategy<\/h3>\n

During the rest part of the year, we tend to be focused pretty much on user growth and short and mid-term goals but have you thought of your exit strategy?<\/p>\n

Summer is the right to jumpstart it. Why?<\/p>\n

Because there’s no one around. Practice exit,\u00a0hard.<\/p>\n

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4. Time to find out whether the ketchup no one knows who put it there is still ok<\/span><\/h3>\n

Let’s be honest, we can hear growls, hoots, howls and squeals from the fridge. We’ve spent the whole year afraid of that\u00a0ketchup bottle\u00a0becoming John Carpenter’s The Thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If your startup is like ours, and you share the kitchen with other teammates and startups, chances are your\u00a0fridge has become a kind of time capsule.<\/p>\n

Time to come\u00a0to grips and find out.<\/p>\n

Good luck.<\/p>\n

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5. Lean Summer<\/h3>\n

Summer makes you lean.<\/p>\n

Lean hard.<\/p>\n

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6. Time to define your users cycle<\/h3>\n

Wait, are you *really* asking what a users’ cycle is?<\/p>\n

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Pretty much.<\/p>\n

7. Best moment to prepare a set of responses to frequently asked questions<\/h3>\n

Now that you are not answering so many questions, and customer support execution is not taking up that much time from your customer happiness specialists, it’s time to sit down and define a set of common replies.<\/p>\n

Time to imagine your users questions and your replies.<\/p>\n

Imagine.<\/p>\n

Hard.<\/p>\n

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8. Best time to kick competitors away<\/h3>\n

Don’t spend that much time thinking about your competitors, but if you do, summer is the right time to allocate more resources to show them who’s the boss in your industry.<\/p>\n

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As always, make it look like an accident.<\/p>\n

\u00a09. Best time to kick off\u00a0plan B if plan A fails<\/h3>\n

I have always thought that focusing on plan B mostly distracts you from plan A. But there are times when you really need to know what to do if business isn’t just going as expected and you have to present an alternative to your stakeholders.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got a plan B, and you know you need to implement it asap before everything falls down…summer is the right time. Just go and start it asap. As stated above, no risk to harm.<\/p>\n

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Warning<\/strong>: excessive implementation\u00a0of these shared gifs may cause delusions, loss of dignity and balance, inviability of project. Rare: imprisonment and death.<\/p>\n

Startupxplore is not liable for any injury, health problem, Secret, loss or damage arising from the involvement of these activities.<\/p>\n

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Share with the rest of startupxplorers and startups, CEOs and entrepreneurs all around the world. Trying to make a better world!<\/h2>\n

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Featured image source: crazy-frankestein.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following up our post about\u00a0tactics\u00a0to keep your users on board and engaged in your app, we’re giving you, here and for free, 9 tips to stay focused and bring out the best from summertime to boost your startup. Startupxplorers, find out our 9 reasons\u00a0why summer is the best time of the year for a startup. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[58,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupxplore.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}