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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

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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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Wasted time is money lost.

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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. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

Silicon Valley

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Wasted time is money lost. (And another story of lost opportunity.)

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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Community is the new battle ground in ecommerce

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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. Ecommerce'

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When It Comes To Entrepreneurship, Age 40 Is The New 20… And Always Has Been

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MAY 16, 2018

Instead, he would take his evident talent to Silicon Valley. People in big companies see innovation through the lens of new product development. If you’re nearing 40, you’ve probably paid off your student loans, maybe have equity in a house and comfortable savings safety net.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars. 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? What is customer development? . We finally settled on a $1.99 Nothing made any difference.

Demand

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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. What is customer development? .

Lean

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

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? What is customer development? . Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

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. 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? What is customer development? .

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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. What is customer development? . This is a common mistake.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. 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? What is customer development? .

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

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? What is customer development? . Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Net Promoter Score NPS is a methodology that comes out of the service industry.

.Net

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

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? What is customer development? . Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Labels: hiring , product development 5comments: TedHoward said.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. Of course, those were the days when 12 year old, 80% market share, $200mm, 30% net profit companies were the ones going public. No business model, either. It seemed like just a bunch of research-oriented PhDs.

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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? What is customer development? . Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

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? What is customer development? . Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Software Review

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

During the last three years he’s worked with over 100 companies, many of which established Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley. Patents, inventions and small companies were sold to larger corporations.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

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? What is customer development? . Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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