CheckScan: Turning Users’ Desire to Control Their Spending into Business
The CheckScan app offers pleasant bonuses when scanning receipts, monetized by working with manufacturers
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11 Common Mistakes of Hardware Startups and How to Avoid Them
What a hardware startup is and what defines it. Examples of such startups in Russia and worldwide. Common mistakes of innovative hardware companies. What you can do to avoid making such mistakes.
Pros and Cons of Launching a Startup Right Now
What should you consider before launching a startup during these tumultuous times? And what are the obvious reasons to launch it anyway?
Billion-dollar Startup Success Stories: 15 Unicorns in 2021
Unicorn startup success stories. Successful companies with a capitalization of $1+ billion. What they did to make magic happen.
A Roadmap: What It Is and Why Your Startup Needs It
The functions of the roadmap. Steps for creating a roadmap on your own. What you need to know and consider. Free services for creating a roadmap. Real-life examples.
How to Manage a Startup Team
Who should take over the management of a startup team? How do you communicate with the team in a way that actually makes people listen? Why is it impossible to be a perfect manager? Today we discuss various concerns related to startup management.
Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue: How to Promote a Startup Using Pirate Metrics
What is AARRR? Why does a startup need the pirate metrics? Five key elements of AARRR that affect business development. Analysis, examples, recommendations.
Intrapreneurs: Who They Are and What They Do
Origins of intrapreneurship. The difference between intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, andmanagers. Why large companies resist innovations
Startup and Small Business: The Difference
Let’s analyze the fundamental differences between starting a small business and launching a startup. This article will help you build a correct development strategy for your company.
Unicorns from China. The Most Interesting Chinese Startups
We collected the most interesting Chinese startups in different fields from fin-tech and e-commerce to medicine, transport, and education.
5 Years of Building a Startup Factory. Where We Are Now and How Much Money We Made
Maxim Volokhov CEO & Founder of the startup studio Admitad Projects, talks about the results of the digital business factory, the first corporate startup studio in the CIS, in 2020
Pivot: What it is and How to Pivot Your Startup Effectively
What should I do if my startup hits a dead end? Pivot is the all-time answer meaning a critical shift in a business direction
Startup Valuation: How to Calculate the Value of your Business
Common methods of startup valuation. What information do you need to evaluate the company and where to find it?
Accelerating Startups: The Ins and Outs
Spoiler alert: read till the end and you’ll know all the basics of a startup accelerator program — from benefits to typical applicants to accelerator models and everything in between.
5 Big Startup Failures in 2020: Not Only Pandemic Is to Blame
The past year has become extremely painful for many projects. Many went bankrupt without receiving additional investment or never making it to IPO. Let us recall which international startups in 2020 can be considered the most disastrous and why the pandemic was not always to blame.
Corporate venture builder. Who needs it and why
The history of venture building. Its main advantages for large companies that launch startups internally.
What is an MVP and Why Your Startup Needs One
What is a Minimum Viable Product and why should any business start with that? Let’s dive deep and discover different MVP types, examples, and use cases.
Hogwarts for a Startup: Admitad Projects First Steps Helps Digital Entrepreneurs Break Ground
How the ADP’s Hogwarts startup school works, how it is useful for aspiring founders, and what prospects it opens up
How to Build a Startup Remotely and Keep Your Sanity
How to organize a startup remotely. What you need to know to successfully go through all the phases without blundering. Choosing an idea and testing a niche.
From a Tiny Pet Project to a Serious Startup: the Story of the Virtual Stylist Marla
What stages must an idea go through? Let’s talk about the transformation from a cozy little get-together to a working startup.
Key metrics showing that a startup is not doing well — Admitad Projects’ Blog
Key metrics to measure startup performance. Financial indicators and how to calculate them. Quality metrics for product and engagement.
Customer Development: a Method for Creating a Product
What is Customer Development? Creating a business model in 9 steps. Target audience interviews. What’s the point of CustDev?
Sales House in the Admitad Projects Startup Studio
What is a Sales House? What role has it got? How does it facilitate the projects’ operation?
Incubator in a Startup Studio: How It Works
How an incubator operates inside a startup factory. What market you should aim at so that the project skyrockets
Admitad Projects and WWF Joint Initiatives
Three projects of the Admitad startup studio together with the World Wildlife Fund are running the Earth Overshoot Day 2020 campaign
The case of a failed startup: Let’s break it down
Media is packed with stories of innovative projects and their success, but what about the flip side? Let’s analyze a startup that’s got some problems.
How to get on Google Trends and make 33 sales in 10 days
A combination of Hype.tech and Push.World helps us get sales and outreach of 100,000+ users. What’s fun in using Hype.tech and Push.World together?
Cap Table: Examples and Comparisons — Blog of Admitad Projects
Examples of Cap Tables in different companies. A short guide to reading Cap Tables. Services to create your capitalization table
Accelerator or Startup Studio: What Should a Startup Founder Choose
What is the difference between a startup factory and an accelerator? What share do they get? What is the best choice for a startup founder?
How to Create a Cap Table — the A-Z Guide for a Startup
Answering the 3 Ws about a capitalization table: What is it? Why does a startup need one? What should it look like? Let’s make a cap table template together.
How to Test 150 Business Ideas. Results of Admitad Projects for 12 Months
What stages we passed through, what it cost and how much money you need to create a startup. Let’s sum up the work we did in the past 12 months
Tracking Projects of a Startup Studio
Who the trackers are and what function they perform in startups. Tracker’s skills. What are the tracker’s methods and work results?
Getting into the Admitad Projects Incubator: What Does It Mean
11 benefits of an incubator for a startup studio. How it works in practice and what advantages a project receives
Admitad Projects Invested into a Creatives Making Service
Mooovie (Banneon), the service for making static banners and creatives for Google Display Network, Yandex Advertising Network
Startup Studios or Venture Building: What It Is and How It Works
How we ended up as a startup studio and how this format is different from an accelerator, incubator, and venture capital funds
Investor’s Profit and Loss Statement
What is P&L? Why do investors need it? How to make and read P&L statements? Examples and templates.
