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Manual processes might be required to ensure quality in a startup, especially in the early stages. But later on, they can get quite painful and eat into your bandwidth to take up other initiatives. Finding smart ways to automate tasks can save you immense amount of time, avoid manual errors, and allow you to scale.
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Automating & building for scale from day 1 of your startup is a mistake. You are going to be tweaking many processes and even getting rid of some. So, wait for internal flows to stabilise and then recognise the tasks that suck the most amount of your time.
Further, building automations takes time. Therefore, pick this up when you don't have other important initiatives or when manual process are just not tenable anymore.
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Automations take time to put in place and can disrupt processes if set up poorly. So, test it extensively. Also, start small - begin with less critical flows. For the more important tasks, automate piece by piece instead of taking up the tough job of automating the entire flow at once.
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Of course, the setup for each startup will be different. However, the approach can be broadly broken down into three steps:
i. Identifying areas to automate
ii. Finding the right tools for automation
iii. Implementing the automation
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i. Β Identifying areas to automate
These are manual workflows that you realise are one or more of the following:
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ii. Finding the right tools for automation
Next, finding the right tool is key. For this you can look at:
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iii. Β Implementing the automation
Since we can't examine the exact automation of your startup, we instead focus on the popular tools and how/where they can be used.
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Manual processes might be required to ensure quality in a startup, especially in the early stages. But later on, they can get quite painful and eat into your bandwidth to take up other initiatives. Finding smart ways to automate tasks can save you immense amount of time, avoid manual errors, and allow you to scale.
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Automating & building for scale from day 1 of your startup is a mistake. You are going to be tweaking many processes and even getting rid of some. So, wait for internal flows to stabilise and then recognise the tasks that suck the most amount of your time.
Further, building automations takes time. Therefore, pick this up when you don't have other important initiatives or when manual process are just not tenable anymore.
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Automations take time to put in place and can disrupt processes if set up poorly. So, test it extensively. Also, start small - begin with less critical flows. For the more important tasks, automate piece by piece instead of taking up the tough job of automating the entire flow at once.
β
Of course, the setup for each startup will be different. However, the approach can be broadly broken down into three steps:
i. Identifying areas to automate
ii. Finding the right tools for automation
iii. Implementing the automation
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i. Β Identifying areas to automate
These are manual workflows that you realise are one or more of the following:
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ii. Finding the right tools for automation
Next, finding the right tool is key. For this you can look at:
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iii. Β Implementing the automation
Since we can't examine the exact automation of your startup, we instead focus on the popular tools and how/where they can be used.
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If you liked this report, would be great if you could share the below thread on Twitter π