Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. These ideas can grow quickly into real products.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Are you wondering which web hosting service to use, or which programming language you need to learn, or what’s important to look for when hiring a software or web developer? About the developers. Lara Fields is the product architect at Palo Alto Software. Shad Stafford is the lead software developer at Palo Alto Software.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. The web development continuum has sound, safe, but stodgy on one side and shiny-obsession at the risk of unknown stability on the other.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. Waterfall Development. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. A Borderless Talent Pool.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. 1) Generalizable Payments .

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Simply tweet @bplans using the hashtag #askadeveloper between 9 and 10 am PDT , and our team of professional software and web developers will respond in real-time. About the developers. Lara Fields is the product architect at Palo Alto Software. Shad Stafford is the lead software developer at Palo Alto Software.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Price is as important as any other feature to determine product/market “fit.” ” How many times have you seen someone struggle with an inferior product because they cannot afford the better one? .”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

He believed that large companies handle sustaining innovation – evolutionary changes in their markets, products, etc. If you’ve been reading my book on Customer Development and follow my work on Market Type , this type of innovation is best for adding new products to existing markets. Just like a startup. More in future posts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2018

David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. We decided that if we were not going to sell, we were going to really up our game,” says Abbie Moore, chief product officer. The result was a reframing of how they understood their mission. We were a mess,” says Moore. “We

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

Let’s say you’re looking for a junior level developer. You post an open position in three places: a technical college’s website, a national job board with a general audience, and a developer-focused job board. Applicant interest: Proactive outreach-to-response.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. At the same time, tools that until yesterday were considered “less professional” or “not advanced” are replacing the more complex tools originally built for developers and geeks.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors to develop products that will reproduce three-dimensional, immersive sound in headphones. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. While chatting about a new product with a friend in person can carry some weight, sharing that same feedback with one’s social networks or online reviews can have much more significant impact for a brand. They share constantly. Kill clichés. Men do laundry.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 27, 2020

There is much debate as to whether Peter Drucker actually said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company in March 2000. Both culture and strategy are equally important, require equal amounts of time and development, and you should continually invest in them to ensure your business is successful.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our product releases took longer to ship than we had hoped. Our business development discussions took longer than planned. We downsized, developed processes and found our groove. We were hot.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2013

In the meatier second part of the book – The Art of the Tell – we’re walked through a three step process to develop compelling stories of our own: 1) Ready… Preparation is the key to success. c) an ending with a resolution that ignites a call for action from the listener. . The Art of the Tell.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The thing I found most compelling is how hackable the human mind can be when an organisation is selling ‘hope’ instead of an actual product. This is the arrival of software platforms that allow anyone with basic computer literacy to develop software or apps without any coding expertise. Think Amway.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time - [link]. The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time – [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Ad agencies are discovering products like Columbus discovered America - [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. It’s a buggy product but pretty damn cool.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. End result?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

Key Takeaway: AI prompts can help marketers generate new concepts, research thoroughly, and develop effective marketing strategies for their clients. And this will give you a real taste of how we view strategy, how we've, how we develop strategy. Big part of what we do is develop what we call core messages. Like this show?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

When I hear the word ‘startup’, my mind immediately begins playing a reel of a bunch of twenty-something year old web developers, huddled together in a retro office somewhere in the SF Bay Area. Your product or service has a huge market. If that’s a problem for you, you might want to think twice about starting any type of business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

How should one go about pricing their software product? How CEOs Stay So Productive | Fast Company – [link]. What is someone going to stop doing when they start using your product? The Value of Taking a Productive Pause – [link]. The Ultimate Photoshop Patterns Collection: 2000+ Patterns – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 16, 2014

What Influences People To Buy Products or Services? What Influences People To Buy Products or Services? Knockoff products … an increasingly growing problem at Amazon – crowdspring.co/1g5t0By. What Influences People To Buy Products or Services? Top 10 Factors – crowdspring.co/1jWAkij.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The need for an alternative to our current meat production is becoming more apparent with each passing day. What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000. water, land, labor feed, etc.?—?become

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Understanding the relationship between humans and technology is the key to responsible development and acceptance of future technologies in almost every application field, be it energy, health, work, learning, or entertainment. It starts from $199 and can range up to $2000 as per your demands. Story of DNA art in India.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. 14- Lack of transparency on existing products.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 22, 2018

Tell us about your products and services. To get this award knowing there are 2000 speakers in this group, is a great honor to me. . In 2013 I trademarked my name, and so now I am the only Steve “The Hurricane” in the world. Hurricane Marketing Enterprises belongs to HIM (haha). How do you help clients?

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