Day 16 — H2 Accelerator Program — Quick Update

Jessica Anderson
Aug 22, 2017 · 3 min read

So the good news is, the site is Live. It does everything I need it to at this point. There is only one major flaw — (points if you can find what it is) that I just haven’t had the time to figure out.

So today disappeared. Actually every day seems to disappear. I’m a bit behind on the blog, so to quickly recap the areas of interest from the last couple of days include:

  • Session from KPMG on different grants, incentives and status’ — it was good to get advice, the key takeaway for me is to apply for the MVP grant sooner rather than later.
  • Monday Stand Up — Of my two goals last week, talk to 50 customers and set up a landing page. I only met 1 — set up a landing page, but that was based off initial feedback and it pushed me in a different direction. My goals for this week include:
  • 5 listings from someone other than me
  • Launch Side site — Done
  • Submit proper Technical Co founder JD to Angel List

Amazon Web Services — As part of the H2 program, we get $15,000 of AWS credits. It’s not super useful to me right now because I’m not technical but once I find my technical co founder this may change.

  • Marketing — It’s taken way longer than I imagined, but I’ve pulled together a bit of a marketing plan (the first kind of plan I’ve had so far) to try and get users to the side sight. I’ll do this for the next month and see how it goes. Here’s a quick pic of my social media plan — let’s see if I can actually stick to this!
  • Instagram — Reserv Guru is now on Instagram — progress is slow but hopefully it will start to take shape over the next few weeks.
  • Pitch Night — Had my first go at my pitch. Every two weeks we get a turn at pitching in front of the group plus a guest. Today’s guest was Riley Batchelor who has done a whole heap os cool things. I was pretty terrified, given I hadn’t practiced and couldn’t even visualise what I would say. All things considered it went pretty well, the feedback was really constructive and I suppose it can only go up from here.
  • Prototypes — aside from the side project, in order to get feedback during the pitch, I drew up some really bad prototypes. For a laugh, here they are below — again it can only go up from here.

And that pretty much sums up the last few days.

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