a prototyped startup for startup prototyping.

Story

In the last 10 years I have been co-founder, CTO, managing director, shareholder, technical advisor, board member, angel for tech startups and mentor, coach and lecturer for the people behind them in the tech scene.

While I am still hands on working in this field through various engagements, I recognized on the meta level problems and negative patterns which are constantly repeated. And this at times where knowledge and ressources about agile methods are abundant and everyone talks about them - but very few act.

Manifesto

• The mission of v01 is to implement a prototyping mindset by offering the right tools for entrepreneurs, content creatives and people working on products.
• The mid term intention is to remove uncertainty, ambiguitiy and waste of resources from the process of starting a digital product or company in order to make more entrepreneurs to succeed in the long term.
• Therefore new software services will be developed and existing solutions will be used and aggregated to make them more accessible.
• Everything is applied recursively to the development of v01 itself and shared with the world - transparently and internationally. A prototyped startup for startup prototyping.

Philosophy

Good software is always used but never finished.

The goal is to always build the next v01. In software and in life. Zen philosophy puts it like: Nothing exists in its present form or color except in this moment. A beginners mind is free of any possessions, as it knows that all is in a state of fluid change.

Call To Action

If you are a fellow entrepreneur, indie hacker, content creative, software engineer or product girl/guy you should subscribe to the newsletter.

You will provide proof, that there are problems worthwhile to tackle. You will be among the first people to be conducted for customer development and among the first with access to beta / mvp releases.

But also you will learn a lot of new things. Not just by following the progress of the prototyped startup, but also by receiving valuable bleeding edge content around the topic of lean prototyping.

Product Initiatives

I've been working super deep on lean methods and books about product development. I wanted to know everything and design the ultimate process. After all, v01.io has to be created the way it stands for: Through prototyping. In order to shed light on this, meta.v01.io is now the an info product that deals with all the lean methods, categorizes them and helps to navigate.

Every business model starts with a lot of thoughts and an underlying thesis. And thanks to the recursive principle of v01, this first product initiative also takes place in an area where entrepreneurs (hopefully) formulate theses at the beginning of their business model.

The Owner

If you want to share your general feedback on this project, please write directly to kb@v01.io. You are also welcome to follow at Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn because there will be also quiet some good content on those topics.