Testimonials

Falcon Private Equity Search

Currently supporting with CTO, Product Engineering and Iterative Design processes.

Primary Goal

Replatform a wordpress stack that had been attempted to be used as a full talent management application - Accomplished May 2022

Secondary Goal

Provide on demand, mostly in the background support to MVP as founder uses MVP with services customers - Ongoing Summer 2022

Falcon needed to undo a years worth of resources put into a wordpress application that was mostly broken and under the best circumstances still would not have been capable talent management needs

Build a "Private User Group" suite as add on to talent management portal - In Progress Summer 2022

June of 2022, work shifted to building out a private user group add on to the talent management of www.privateequitycxo.com

Monthly Engineering & Design spend $10k - $15k

Interview

Click to watch video interview with Cori Audey, VP Strategy Falcon Partners.

John D & Cori Audey

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One of the best things for me has been the subtle or not so subtle coaching throughout the process

Cori Audey

VP Strategy Falcon Partners

Kestela

Helped their founder bring an MVP idea to life

Primary Goal

Build MVP enabling specific data sync from Quickbooks or Xero into Google Sheets - Accomplished May 2022

Secondary Goal

Provide on demand, mostly in the background support to MVP as founder uses MVP with services customers - Ongoing Summer 2022

Founder Mike Fitzpatrick needed to evaluate if something was feasible and could be built within a reasonable timeline/budget

Developed basic routines to prove the api connections could support the desired product

Developed all aspects of UI and interfaces, Kestela is currently stable and acquiring users

Monthly Engineering spend during implementation phase approx $8k

Interview

Click to watch video interview with Mike Fitzpatrick, Founder Kestela Inc.

John D & Mike Fitzpatrick

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I thought that was overly communicated in a positive way.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Founder Kestela Inc

HappiLabs

Currently supporting with CTO, Product Engineering and Iterative Design processes.

Primary Goal

Build MVP enabling customer growth re "Scientists just want to see a list of when their stuff will arrive" - Accomplished year end 2014

Secondary Goal

Enable all aspects of scaling the MVP into a stable, growing operations management software suite - Accomplished year end 2019

Startuplandia built their first product circa 2014, currently supporting Happilabs with CTO, general engineering and design services

Fast forward to 2022, HappiLabs is a mostly profitable multi-million dollar bio-tech business operations management service

Scaled from a few to 50+ enterprise customers who utilize Happilabs' highly optimized software/services flows to improve scientific operations

Happilabs accepted into Y-Combinator Winter 2018. Monthly Design & Engineering spend flucuates between $5-15k

Interview

Click to watch video interview with Tom Ruginis, Founder, CEO HappiLabs.

John D & Tom Ruginis

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I think I knew Startuplandia before Startuplandia

Tom Ruginis

Founder, CEO HappiLabs

Able

Currently supporting with Technical Recruiting, Engineering Augmentation services.

Primary Goal

Build a small team of full stack api & ios development to enable vetting for FTE - Accomplished Aug 2021

Secondary Goal

Provide on demand engineering support - Ongoing Summer 2022

Able needed an engineering team, circa June 2021

Over the course of 7 months, Startuplandia helped Able build a 9 person (web full stack, ios, android) team resulting in 2 key hires and ongoing support from 3 engineers on the Startuplandia team.

Monthly Engineering spend fluctuates between $10-40k

Interview

Click to watch video interview with Vince Cortese, Founder, CEO Able.

John D & Vince Cortese

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An amazing godsend who helped us get a lot of stuff done.

Vince Cortese

Founder, CEO Able

A Dream Team