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Crunchbase screenshot of the Seed Round amount.
Before: Raised a bit of Pre-Seed money and hired a couple of core team members. The startup was running out of the original investment, the MVP wasn't even close to being completed due to the complex blockchain architecture and logic. TR needed to raise money to get to the next milestone and launch their product.
After: Raised $1.2M Seed Round in 9 months. Hired 5 new people.
"With Forcoda’s help, we were able to raise $1.2 million in the seed round. Their wireframe development was impressive and didn’t lead to any delays. Great communication and strong relationships are a top priority for them to make for a successful partnership."
Chris LaFleur, CEO of Transparency Registry
Chris LaFleur
CEO of Transparency Registry
Dashboard design before and after working with Forcoda.
Before: Won $500,000 prize at 43North Startup competition and were looking to invest in product development and User Experience to prepare for their first sales cycle but didn't have design expertise in house.
After: Forcoda designed an interactive UX/UI prototype that Immersed Games used to start selling their ugraded dashboard to the customers before it was implemented.
"We had just won a $500,000 prize at the 43North Startup Competition. We had a market-tested educational game in EdTech space and some beta customers but were looking to invest in our product development and User Experience to prepare for our first sales cycle. Our learning platform had already been developed, but we did not yet have an Assessment Dashboard for teachers to be able to track student learning, which was critical. We tried to do it internally first but quickly realized that we needed to engage an external design team to get up to speed and hit the deadline before we started ramping up sales.
We connected with the Forcoda team through the Buffalo tech community and decided to bring them on for the project. The Forcoda team was able to immerse themselves into our industry nuances quickly, understand existing UX and UI challenges, and propose a solution. In a few weeks, we had a completed interactive UX/UI prototype of the dashboard that looked and acted like a finished product. While the design was in the development phase, we were able to use the interactive prototype to demonstrate the upcoming features during our sales demos and also collect feedback from existing customers.
Once we started presenting a new dashboard design during the sales calls, we noticed teachers' interest perked up. Seeing the Assessment Dashboard that Forcoda designed let them better understand how learning was taking place, and they were able to better grasp the concept of our platform. Educators were excited to have a user-friendly way to access class reports and data, which helped to solidify our value proposition to teachers."
Lindsey Tropf, Founder & CEO of Immersed Games
Lindsey Tropf
Founder & CEO of Immersed Games
You can validate your product idea and get market traction in less than 6 months without investing time and money into developing an MVP.
However, most entrepreneurs are not aware of this option because the market is flooded with information. It’s hard to figure out an approach on your own that helps you get predictable results in a reasonable time frame.
Forcoda is dedicated to solving this particular problem for non-technical entrepreneurs building tech companies.
Lena moved to the US from Russia in 2009 to pursue her American Dream. She was looking for a better way to apply MS in Computer Science. This is where her ultimate journey of an entrepreneur has begun. Lena applied the same skills that she learned by moving to a new country – resilience, resourcefulness, being self-motivated, and goal-oriented, not giving up when times get tough – to growing her business
In 2014, Lena founded Forcoda and focused on helping companies grow their business by solving complex design and development challenges. Over the last 6 years, Lena and her team worked with hundreds of startups and small businesses, as well as Fortune 500 clients.
After speaking with hundreds of startup founders, Lena heard the same story over and over again - startup founders were either getting burned by working with the wrong vendor and waste time trying to figure things out on their own.
Lena used her skills to put together a solution that can help founders to do it right from the beginning, get on the next level quickly with a high-quality product, and without breaking a bank.
The solution worked better than I have ever imagined. Our clients were able to see tangible results and insane ROI on their investment within the first year. One of our clients raised a $1.2 million Seed round within 9 months of working with us. Other clients were able to increase their conversions or reduce costs.
Here's the six-step process to raising a $1M seed round without wasting budget on the software development
Previously founders would start by doing customer research (or sometimes skip that step) and then design and hack an app themselves. They would typically spend months trying to learn how to design or code, or throw money hiring freelancers and offshore teams. After the MVP was completed, founders would finally feel comfortable soliciting feedback from prospective customers or try to make a few sales only to find out the MVP doesn’t match market need or expectation. Eventually, after several trials and errors, if the founder is lucky to get the problem/solution right, he or she would go and raise the first round of venture funding. The whole process would take anywhere between 2-3 years.
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Examples of persona profiles
Building product based only on your own assumptions or market knowledge
If you clearly understand your target audience's needs and expectations, then you can create a design that resonates with customers and leads you to higher sales, and you will spend less on development since more changes can be done during the design step. More sales down the road.
If you clearly understand your target audience's needs and expectations, then you can create a design that resonates with customers and leads you to higher sales, and you will spend less on development since more changes can be done during the design step. More sales down the road.
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Demo of an interactive prototype created for KickFurther
If you clearly understand your target audience's needs and expectations, you can create a design that resonates with customers and leads you to higher sales. You will spend less on development since more changes can be done during the design step.
Summary of 10-year returns for the companies in the UX Fund.
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Example of the intricate structure of one of the sections inside of the Transparency Registry prototype.
Implementation of the UX/UI design best practices leads to better quality MVPs that resonate with the target audience. Less development time wasted.
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Example of applying global style updates to your design.
Making changes to your product features after MVP has been fully developed.
Making changes to the product features during the design phase will be 5-10 times cheaper and faster. The further you move on the project timelines, the more expensive it becomes to change something. With the design prototype, you can make edits on the fly after each sales call.
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The prototype that Transparency Registry used to raise $1.2M.
Start selling only after the MVP is developed and is live.
Start pre-selling in 4-6 weeks by using an interactive UX/UI prototype.
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The prototype that Transparency Registry used to raise $1.2M
So you all you need to do is:
And you can get to $1.2M in funding in 9 months or less without investing in the development of the application.
You will be able to validate your product idea faster and start pre-selling in 4-6 weeks.
You can even raise up to $1.2M in 9 months or less if you execute properly.
You can finally stop wasting time and spinning the wheels by dumping money into the mediocre solutions that generate next to nothing results.
You can forget about anyone who doubted you and prove they were wrong.
You will feel like you can finally sleep at night and focus on the most important thing – growing your startup and acquiring new customers.
Before, when you wanted to do the customer research, you would have to slap together a PowerPoint slide deck and start reaching out to the friends and family or people in your network trying to get feedback on your idea.
But now, if you engage us on the project, we can handle the customer research from start to finish - we can identify proper user personas profiles, reach out to prospective users, conduct interviews to analyze their pain point and their goals; organize project objectives and features based on the importance in a few weeks instead of months.
Examples of persona profiles
Before, when you wanted to design the app prototype, you would have to either learn how to do it yourself, hire a freelancer or outsource it overseas.
But now, by working with us, you can have a high-quality interactive prototype in 4-6 weeks without wasting time and stressing out about learning a new skill or managing a designer that is not invested in the success of your project.
Example of the intricate structure of one of the sections inside of the Transparency Registry prototype.
We’ll also provide you with a style guide with all UI elements and their default and active states, colors, and fonts, that your development team can use as a reference during the development process to keep the consistent UI look and accelerate the development time.
Example of the UI Styleguide that is included in the project deliverables.
Before, when you wanted to get customer feedback on the app design, you would have to build a functional MVP first so users can test drive it. You would have to wait 6-12 months to get it done.
But now, by using an interactive UX/UI design prototype, you can start collecting customer feedback in just 4-6 weeks without wasting time and money on the development. Any feedback that you receive during this phase, you can quickly update in your design in a matter of hours or days instead of weeks or months. You can even polish up the prototype after each customer call, that's how quick it is to make updates to the design prototype.
Example of how you can change the color of elements in your design on the fly.
Before, when you wanted to start selling, you would have to design and build an MVP and spend 12-24 months on it. But now, by using an interactive UX/UI design prototype, you can start making pre-sales in just 4-6 weeks without wasting time and money on the development.
Example of Transparency Registry platform UX/UI prototype.
Before, when you wanted to pitch the investors, you would have to build an MVP, start getting traction, and make a few sales. The whole process could take you 12-24 months.
But now, you can use an interactive UX/UI design prototype to start validating your market, getting traction, and making pre-sales without wasting months and tens of thousands of dollars. You want to raise money when you have figured out a product-market fit and got the traction.
Example of Transparency Registry platform UX/UI prototype.
Outline proper customer profiles and do market research.
Valued at $5,000
Create a high-fidelity interactive design prototype.
Valued at $30,000
Get actionable feedback from your prospective customers.
Valued at 10,000
Start selling 6-9 months sooner.
Valued at $45,000
Raise venture capital without investing in the development cost.
Valued up to $1.2 million
You’ll get access to our investor network.
We have seen our clients getting positive feedback from the investor and getting pre-sales from the customers once the project was completed. Others were able to test and validate their product idea before they spent a fortune on the development.
So how does our guarantee work?
Very simple. Clients that go through our 6-step process will be able to see the results -upon the project completion they will be able to validate a product or service idea, getting more interest from customers and investors and within 6-12 months - getting more interest from customers and investors, closing more sales or the next funding round.
Example of Transparency Registry platform UX/UI prototype.
You get:
We only have the bandwidth to take on 3 new customers each month, so if you are interested, make sure you act now, or you might not get another chance until next month.
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