Startup Archives

AI-generated image. How to use Bing Image Creator

29 May 2023

Ramunas Balcaitis

Categories: Artificial Inteligence, Innovations

Welcome to my blog, where imagination meets innovation and artistry takes on a whole new dimension. In this digital era, the boundaries of creativity are being redefined, and AI-generated images are at the forefront of this remarkable transformation.

I engage in various web activities, including writing a blog, creating content, and assisting my wife with her e-commerce business by managing all IT aspects. By having so many activities I am searching for free-to-use IT solutions to keep costs low and engage my users.

What is the ideation scoping?

29 March 2023

Ramunas Balcaitis

Categories: Design thinking, Innovations, Startup

Ideation scoping is the process of identifying and defining the parameters of a design thinking challenge. This process helps to ensure that the design thinking process is focused and aligned with the needs of the problem or opportunity at hand.

Why Do You Need a Product Owner?

15 November 2021

Ramunas Balcaitis

Categories: Product, Startup

The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team. © Scaled Agile, Inc.

A product owner is the central point of contact for a product. It is their job to know the customer inside and out and to work with the sales and marketing teams collectively to launch a product.

Why Products Fail?

1 July 2021

Ramunas Balcaitis

Categories: Startup

The main reason products fail is because they don’t meet customer needs.

Dan Olsen in his book “The Lean Product Playbook” presents his very famous product-market fit pyramid.

Dan’s definition of product-market fit—which is consistent with his—is that you have built a product that creates significant customer value. This means that your product meets real customer needs and does so in a way that is better than the alternatives.

His process guides through each layer of the pyramid from the bottom up.

Adobe’s Kickbox: The Kit To Launch Your Next Big Idea

9 May 2021

Ramunas Balcaitis

Categories: Design thinking, Innovations, Startup

Innovation is s difficult topic when we are discussing about it. Every manager top down want innovations, even sometimes not sure what it is and how it should looks like.

I was very interested when first time I found about Adobe Kickbox. Adobe managed to create program / framework that encourages and guides employees to innovate at work.

From my personal insight, this is useful for individual person too. You may go through framework in order to create your personal “startup”.

What is an Affinity Diagram?

13 October 2020

Ramunas Balcaitis

Categories: Design thinking

The affinity diagram is a business tool used to organize ideas and data. It is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. People have been grouping data into groups based on natural relationships for thousands of years; however, the term affinity diagram was devised by Jiro Kawakita in the 1960s^[1] and is sometimes referred to as the KJ Method.