Startup Ops - Operations

Sibelius Seraphini

Sibelius Seraphini

sseraphinisibelius
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CoFounder

Overview

  • What is Operational Work?
  • Landing Page
  • Sales Automation
  • Customer Success
  • Onboarding
  • Documentation
  • Product Development
  • Team Management
  • Releases
  • Monitoring
  • Data Analysis

What is Operational Work?

  • It is the work that keeps the business running

Landing Page

Landing Page

  • The landing page is the first impression on users
  • It needs to be beautiful, simple and clear
  • It needs to sell, you need a call to action
  • It needs to tell your Startup story

Landing Page - Operational Work

  • Release Automation
  • Design System to make it easy create new pages on Landing Page
  • Write more articles and content to improve SEO
  • Design of new pages

Landing page - Woovi

  • Articles in .mdx (no need for CMS yet, because our bottleneck is writing new content)
  • Gatsby (we are going to migrate to nextjs in the future)
  • Easy to create new pages and content - reuse design system components
  • Cloudflare Pages for hosting

Sales Automation

Sales Automation

  • Your Startup needs to sell something to be profitable
  • Automating your sales process than decrease your Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
  • Your users need to be able to try your product without talking to any sales person

Sales Automation - Operational Work

  • Make sure users registration process are working well
  • Talk to new users to understand their needs

Sales Automation - Woovi

  • Our own user registration process
  • Validate user email and mobile phone
  • Sync new user to PipeDrive Sales CRM

Customer Success

Customer Success - Operational Work

  • Make sure all customers are happy
  • Talk to new customers to understand their needs
  • Talk to existing customers to make sure they are still happy
  • Notify customers of new features
  • Notify customers of incidents
  • Track customers issues and feature requests

Customer Success - Woovi

  • Our support is chat based using Crisp
  • We use PipeDrive to add customer information
  • We track internally customer issues and feature requests

Onboarding

Onboarding

  • Onboarding is the process of helping new users to get started with your product
  • It guides the user to use the platform and understand the value of your product
  • It helps with integration
  • It activates the user

Onboarding - Operational Work

  • Track if users are doing what they need to do
  • Improve onboarding and documentation based on new users feedback
  • Do integration call if needed

Onboarding - Woovi

  • Merchants need to open their virtual account
  • Merchants need to connect OpenPix/Woovi to their e-commerce and brick and mortar stores
  • Merchants need to start selling using OpenPix/Woovi
  • Merchants need to withdraw they money

Documentation

Documentation

  • Documentation is a way to communicate with your users
  • Documentation reduces the number of support tickets
  • The better the documentation, the more your users will use your product
  • A public documentation can improve your Startup SEO

Documentation - Operational Work

  • Keeping your documentation up to date with your platform changes
  • Improving documentation based on user feedback

Documentation - Woovi

  • https://developers.openpix.com.br/ - Technical Documentation
  • https://ajuda.openpix.com.br/ - Non-Technical Documentation

Product Development

Product Development - Operational Work

  • make sure everybody is working on the most important things
  • repriority tasks based on new information
  • create building blocks/abstraction to move faster

Product Development - Woovi

  • We have 6 products in our Roadmap
  • We have 4 of them in production: Pix, Cashback, Giftback, Offline/PDV
  • We focus on features/products that makes us reach our OKR - Objectives and Key Results.

Team Management

Team Management

  • Your team will build your Product
  • Your team will build your Startup culture
  • Your team are still learning a lot
  • Your team needs training and support

Team Management - Operational Work

  • Delegation
  • Communication
  • 1 a 1
  • Checking how each member of the team is doing
  • Unblocking the team
  • Making sure they are happy and challenged
  • Reviewing everything they do

Team Management - Woovi

  • Team contribute with their own ideas
  • Teams are autonomous and take their own decisions

Releases

Releases

  • Releases make sure our users see the working we have done

Releases - Operational Work

  • Test everything that will be released
  • Ask for help from team members if needed

Releases - Woovi

  • All release process is automated
  • We have a Slack bot to publish a new release
  • Any team member can publish a new release
  • Many releases per day

Monitoring

Monitoring

  • Monitoring helps us understand how our system are working in production
  • Monitoring help us understand how the users are using our product

Monitoring - Operational Work

  • Check if there is performance regression after a release
  • Check if there are new errors after a release
  • Check if how a new feature is being used

Monitoring - Woovi

  • Kibana + Elastic APM (Application Performance Monitoring) for server monitoring
  • Sentry for error monitoring
  • Slack for alerts
  • Google Analytics for user behavior

Data Analysis

Data Analysis

  • Data Analysis helps us understand how our business is doing
  • Ask questions and find answers for our questions

Data Analysis - Operational Work

  • Build dashboards to help us understand our business
  • Review existing dashboards and reports to make sure they are still relevant
  • Review data modeling to improve our data analysis

Data Analysis - Woovi

  • We use Metabase to build dashboards
  • We track our revenue, profit and expenses in realtime
  • We track Daily Activy Users (DAO) and Monthly Activity Users (MAU)
  • We track customer retetion and cohort
  • We track how our users are growing.
  • We have specific KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for each product.

Demo

Pix + Cashback

woovi.com/demo/cashback

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