A startup studio & product consultancy

DRIVING THOUGHTFUL EXECUTION OF BOLD IDEAS

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Featured Case Studies
TRT
TRT

Scaling Turkey’s largest media company

Howlak
Howlak

Invisible restaurant search in Qatar

MDIF
MDIF

Product leadership training in Poland

Backhouse
Backhouse

B2B marketplace for virtual brands

Eagle Falcon
Eagle Falcon

Artisanal leather goods and accessories

Bingoal
Bingoal

Football prediction gaming in Qatar

iPlus
iPlus

Global news, from Iraq to the world

Syndout
Syndout

Speech-enabled publishing on phones

Consulting Services

Whether you are a startup gearing up to launch your first product or a seasoned enterprise in need of a product portfolio strategy, Derrick has helped companies like Toro, TRT, and Backhouse Brands bridge the gap between ambitious ideas and thoughtful execution.

His toolkit is rich with proven techniques and strategies, combined by a network of talented teams poised to amplify your success.

  • For organizations with a clear product strategy but need help with execution, a Fractional Product Lead can take full ownership of the end to end product lifecycle and accelerate speed to market with new products or features.

    Service Offerings

    • Collaborate with your team for 10-20 hours weekly

    • Craft a market-entry strategy for your product

    • Co-create your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with your team

    • Enhance your agile methodologies and team coordination

  • Ideal for those seeking strategic leadership expertise combined with thoughtful execution of complex product portfolios.

    Service Offerings

    • Provide strategic, executive direction and leadership across a portfolio of products and services

    • Engage with your product and leadership team for approximately 5-10 hours weekly

    • Establish clear objectives and key performance indicators

    • Refine your agile frameworks and technical team efficiency

    • Conduct a comprehensive analysis of your product lifecycle

    • Map out a strategic product roadmap and execution plan

  • Tailored for startups aiming to assemble complete product development teams or supplement existing in-house teams with external resources.

    Service Offerings

    • Assist in forming your engineering, design, and QA teams through trusted agency alliances

    • Facilitate connections with top-tier marketing and growth experts in the industry

  • "Derrick has a lot of insight to offer and grasped how media could work effectively in voice much earlier than most others."

    — Bret Kinsella, Editor, Voicebot.ai

  • “The attendees really loved the workshop, and are eager to put into practice what they've learned from you.”

    — Valer Kot, MDIF, Czech Republic

  • "It was a real pleasure to be at your workshop and to learn something new. It definitely helps me to understand the whole product we create."

    — Andy Samofalov, Liga.net, Ukraine

  • "I had the opportunity to listen to your presentations at Agora on Monday and Tuesday. They were impressive - huge amount of knowledge and practice put in very structured way."

    — Tomasz Bienias, Agora, Poland

  • "I've worked for Derrick on a couple of projects on enabling citizen journalism platforms in Kenya and Ghana. He is really visionary on how to expand the way news channels can get new sources of information from the field."

    — Stephane Boyera, World Wide Web Foundation

Startup Studio

Invest intellectual capital into your next startup venture. For a small slice of equity, leverage the expertise of global product & design leader to turn bold ideas into thoughtful execution. Get to market faster.

Let’s build something together.

  • Powerful ideas come from powerful insights. Running a product discovery process will determine if an idea is rooted in a problem worth solving.

  • Seeing is believing. Turning validated learnings into visual prototypes is an efficient way to test a solution with real customers.

  • Turning market tested designs into thoughtful execution is the most capital efficient way to turn vision into reality.

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