Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9 These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product. Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Kontagent. -A

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m I learned about revenue recognition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? We actually lived this situation, and got to validate this answer: a process of rapid iteration can beat massive strategic investments from a big competitor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customer development to online marketing. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. There is much work that I need to do (the only developer so far) before we have something customers can use. Its now a technique I recommend for any web-based startup.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Instead, a variety of research techniques have been developed and used through the years. In this way, it’s more indirect and can determine price elasticity as well as an accurate range of effective pricing for a product. However, you can’t just ask your customer, “what would you like to pay for this?” Brand Price Trade-off.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. Check out my book Like this post? But is it the right data?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. INTEL-ISRAEL DEVELOPS NEW CHIP “SANDY BRIDGE”. ’s Haifa R&D Center has developed a new microprocessor called Sandy Bridge, which is set to be launched in early 2011.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. And yet I keep returning to PHP as a development platform, as have most of my fellow startup CTOs. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). One of the common mistakes young startups make is developing a product without enough input. At Kiwi Crate, we spent quite a bit of time working with parents and kids to develop our product.

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