Quick Catch Labs | Initiate and Accelerate

Catch Phrase

Quick Catch Labs gets its name from competitive rowing. A rower with a “quick catch” has the skill and experience to get the oar into the water quickly, and is able to apply power earlier in the stroke to make the boat go faster with less effort. This is a great image and metaphor to use as we develop, prototype, refine and scale new business...

Social Expertise

We have a proven record of starting and growing successful businesses all based on the same foundation: interacting with and involving customers. Whatever term you choose – online communities, Web 2.0, social networking or social media – we’ve been at the forefront of these trends and have hands-on experience managing the human and technical dynamics that are inherent in a system where...

Rapid Iteration

Our approach to business is to move quickly to learn directly from prospective customers. We don’t believe in 100-page product requirements documents or 18-month development projects.Without real-world feedback, we’d be just guessing. Quick Catch Labs is for testing and learning. We’re focused on two projects that we believe have significant commercial potential. The first version of the...

Focused Effort

What is it we’re not going to do? We ask ourselves this question every day. It’s important to have a big vision, and we do, but it’s easy to get pulled in a many different directions. Focus means solving a specific problem for a well-defined customer and learning from that experience. Focus is also important for clarity of vision. When we can see where we’re going, we know...

Contact

If you have questions about Quick Catch Labs or think there’s a way we can can work together or learn from each other, we’d love to hear from you. Send e-mail to team@quickcatchlabs.com or call 508-657-4347.

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Collective Creativity

In designing the new site for Quick Catch Labs, we enlisted the help of several creative people. We discovered wonderful photographs of crew regattas across the world by a student named Felix Dieu. The blog post “Photos By Felix Dieu” for more information about his work.