Product Hacks - Develop a Product for Free or Cheap

Course details

The Founder Institute presents "Product Hacks 101" - an online program designed to teach you how to launch a product on a small budget.

Product Hacks 101 is a comprehensive step-by-step program to help Founders to create a tech product without a large budget or big engineering team.

This course contains 8 of the most inspirational, most informative and best-rated lectures specially selected from the hundreds of Founder Institute semesters and thousands of startup mentors around the world.

The curriculum and the assignments are designed to bring you through the process of ideation, building a minimal viable product (MVP), launching a product, and post-launch customer development.

Your instructors for this course include renowned entrepreneurs and startup experts such as:

Eric Ries (Lecture 1: Don't Achieve Failure)

Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

Misha Chellam (Lecture 2: Solve A Worthy Problem)

Misha Chellam is the Founder of Tradecraft. Previously, he was the director of The Founder Institute, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Blumberg Capital and was a co-founder and COO of Scanadu, a portable health device company. Before Scanadu, he brought the Founder Institute to Brussels and he co-founded a commercial real estate company in Hanoi. Misha has over 11 years of experience as an entrepreneur.

Thom Kozik (Lecture 3: Leverage Your Ecosystem)

Thom Kozik runs the startup Context Digital Media, a Publisher/Distributor of online & mobile games. Prior to launching Context Digital Media, he was the Exec VP of Atari. Kozik's background includes several years at Microsoft working on early multimedia technologies, and ultimately MSFT's interactive television strategy. Among a handful of start-ups ventures, Kozik co-founded All-Seeing Eye and that was sold to Yahoo! in 2004.

Gagan Biyani (Lecture 4: Make Something People Want)

Gagan Biyani is CEO & co-founder of Sprig. Previously, he was co-founder and President of Udemy, where he led supply acquisition (6,000+ instructors teach on Udemy) and demand acquisition ($6M+ courses sold). Udemy has raised $16M in three rounds and has been covered by hundreds of publications. After Udemy, he spent 6 months as an advisor to Lyft, where he led supply and demand acquisition for their launch in Los Angeles, which grew faster than San Francisco.

Justin Wilcox (Lecture 5: Build A Useful MVP)

Justin Wilcox is the Founder & CTO of Nimbus Health - an electronic medical record company. He's launched a couple mobile apps in his spare time, including a top seller in the Travel Category and Bounce on Android. Justin has been invited to mentor at startup accelerators across 5 continents and regularly spends weeks in local ecosystems, assisting and advising community leaders from Singapore to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Adeo Ressi (Lecture 6: Launch A Company For Under $2,000)

Adeo Ressi is the Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute, an entrepreneur training and startup launch program that has helped start over 1310 technology companies across 6 continents. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner of Expansive Ventures, an early-stage venture firm, and the Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of over 20,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide.

Jimmy Hendricks (Lecture 7: Build A Real Product)

Jimmy Hendricks is Co-Founder and CEO of Deal Current, one of the most well recognized "white label" daily deal software companies in the US. Prior to founding Deal Current, Hendricks was an executive at Active.com, a leading provider of application services technology and marketing solutions for community service and participatory sports organizations with $300M+ annual revenues.

Jon Carder (Lecture 8: Post-launch Customer Development)

Jon Carder is the CEO of Mogl.com. Mogl is revolutionizing Loyalty Programs by turning eating out into a fun game that earns consumers cash rewards and automatically donates a meal to Feeding America through its Meal for a Meal program. He is a serial Internet entrepreneur, who by the age of 30 had founded three multimillion-dollar online businesses.

About The Founder Institute

The Founder Institute is the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, helping aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 40 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 1,310 companies in 5 years. The company's mission is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" and build sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.