Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Seed-round investment.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

However, when it comes to MLM product development, marketing ideas and compensation plan strategy, being a creative copycat could be a legal and ethical shortcut to achieving your business goals for your new MLM, party plan or direct selling company. The same goes for new MLM product development.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Check out these critical tips for developing an effective marketing strategy for startups in boring industries. Casting a wide net with your marketing efforts not only burns through your budget, but it ensures that your message resonates with no one. Of course, most startups are all about product development and launch.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2011

What’s more, the same old song and dance the oil companies offer with regard to touring how much of a percentage their research and development expenditures are as compared to revenue is a joke, and absolutely no guarantee of success. Innovation in this area has been driven by high prices and it has been driven by shortages.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Highly trained salespeople.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The agenda ( full agenda here ) includes the following discussions: DEIS in Corporate Governance & Board DEIS in Human Resources & Talent Acquisition DEIS in Procurement DEIS in Edge Technology Product Development & Corporate Innovation DEIS in Go To Market DEIS in Venture Capital & Investment DEIS in Impact.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development. The product management process assumes that product/market fit is known, and the products can get spec’d and then implemented in a linear fashion. StageGate Process.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This is true not only in terms of GAAP net profit (most conservative representation of profit), but also Airbnb’s FCF is well above even its adjusted EBITDA (most liberal representation of profit, sometimes referred to in jest as “profit before the bad stuff”).

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening. Thanks to Richard Mews, Sell With Richard ! #14- 14- The Farmstand. Photo Credit: Amrita Saigal.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

Whether they were critical to product development, marketing, or a successful exit, each of these individuals can have a significant impact on the amount of money the business is worth. An advisor knows how to structure a deal so that the net proceeds are higher, and can help you minimize taxes and other expenses.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 20, 2019

One of the most obvious reasons mature businesses die away – when we look in the rear view mirror – is that they did not spend to renew their product or service when newer entrants into the business arrived with better products and services built upon newer technology. Should be an easy fix for companies making annual net profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Products: You obviously can’t create value without a viable product (or service) to sell. This section of your Venture Value Scorecard should summarize the important advances you have made recently in research and product development. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Net result and reward. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The strategy of blending content and commerce has been around for a while now and underpinned the success of companies like ASOS and Net-a-porter , but it’s only recently that companies have started to understand the power of adding community. Communities come in three flavours: Consumer communities (e.g.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

First, there is an organized community net which is better (although certainly not perfect) at “catching” raw entrepreneurial talent out of the universities and keeping people here in their 20’s. Plus, on top of it all, with accelerator programs we’re net importing kick-ass founders from all over the world.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

People in big companies see innovation through the lens of new product development. Fluency in these critical skills is the key to any entrepreneur’s success, not reading textbooks about product-market fit, and certainly not painstakingly constructing a business plan.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2013

And today they’re actually notable with a reported $100 million net worth. Ryan Currie is a product manager at BizShark.com , with 5 years experience in online marketing and product development. This attitude, while admittedly annoying, convinced people they were worth paying attention to. Who’s laughing now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Net result and reward. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 25, 2020

What will be the process for the parties agreeing the final design or recipe for the product? In a food collaboration, the party manufacturing the product would usually do the product development work, with input from the non-manufacturing party. Will the product be a permanent one, or will there be a limited run?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars. We finally settled on a $1.99 price point, figuring that we wouldnt make much money, but at least we wouldnt get in the way of achieving scale. Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

Implement Net Promoter Score (NPS) with your customers. For example, you might ask a customer during an engagement, “On a scale of 1-10, how likely is it that you would recommend [your product/brand] to a friend or colleague? If your OTD efforts succeed, do the same thing again — this time focused on quality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It can’t work if developers have the attitude that they’re done once their code works on their machine and it’s checked into version control. If there’s a problem in production, developers need to own it. Thus it’s important to create and establish fast feedback loops so we can measure the effects of our changes.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Net result – we hit our numbers, the investment community was happy, and the management team’s salaries were “made whole.” And here’s what they said - “we are simply not executing well enough on our activities across the business, on product development, marketing, sales.” Their fault?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Heres an excerpt: In a previous article, we called Toyota’s product development system the “second Toyota paradox.&# Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile product development? Youve probably addressed this in the past, but I continue to be blown away by how fast Blizzard reacts to noise in their forums and rapidly makes fixes to the product. =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Some techniques that Ive found especially helpful: Build your own tracking survey, using a methodology like Net Promoter Score (NPS) to identify and get a regular check-up from promoters (and to screen out detractors). Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. This is a common mistake. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. As the company grows, this kind of work generalizes into "executing the companys current strategy." Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2019

In franchising this type of business, you’ll save on startup costs such as advertising, product development, and quality control. Wendy’s – They require franchise candidates to have at least $2 million in liquid assets with $5 million as a net worth for franchise groups. Beverage Franchises.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 2, 2019

Since brand promotion adds another level of value to your brand that your product can’t provide on its own, this is your opportunity to communicate to your audience what makes your offer unique and remarkable. Think of promotion as a safety net to catch members of your target audience at every stage of the decision process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? .

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 31, 2013

Each of you should focus on maybe 3-year and 10-year horizons in four major areas - professional (what I want to be doing), personal (the things I want to be doing outside of work), financial (the lifestyle I want to be living/net worth) and corporate (what the company will look like).

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

You’ll want to raise enough money to cover planned expenses and cash flow requirements plus some additional funding as a safety net. This section should cover key dates for product development, key partnerships you need to create, and any other important goals you plan on achieving. A strong management team.

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