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Be Your First Customer: Why Beta Testing Is Right for You

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After all, Gmail wasn’t taken out of beta until 2009 — five years after it was originally released. And just this past April, Apple announced its plans to release its next OS X operating system in public beta. Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product. What You Gain From Beta Testing.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.

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Sales and Marketing Misalignment Is Costly—But Avoidable

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Marketing collateral and educational resources go unused by your sales team. Your marketing and sales team operate independently much of the time. One of the most common reasons for marketing and sales to be out of sync is that the customer journey is too segmented between teams. Image source ). Image source ).

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Nice write-up.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said. April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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