View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Another success.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

AI-powered spend automation software integrates with existing expense management, invoice automation, contract management, and ERP systems to augment rather than disrupt your status quo. In the case of early payment discounts, this software notifies you that the invoice should be prioritized to get payment out in ample time. .

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2019

Most product descriptions are awful. Product copy and product descriptions seem like such minor parts of a website in the grand scheme of conversion optimization , so many brands brush it off. In fact, some companies do product copy so well that it’s almost a feature of the product itself. Or worse, non-existent.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

More than ever, small businesses and startups must execute and bring their software-based products or services to market quickly. One risk of moving fast involves selecting software technologies that allow you to bring your products/services to market quickly, but that ultimately may not easily scale to accomodate increasing traffic.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. . Even in a sustained downturn, tech is likely to be a driving force of economic productivity improvements rather than the proximate cause of recession (as in 2001).

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency. Facebook Pages.

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Transformify

JUNE 29, 2021

Needless to say, '' bad hires' come at a cost and there is hardly any organization across the globe that has not been hurt by high headcount turnover / low productivity ratio. Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that over the decade from 2019 to 2029; labor productivity is expected to increase from 1.1 percent to 1.8

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. In the same market, the product with better marketing wins. The technician gets the work done.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product. In most other companies a product-marketing department was responsible for the pricing, positioning and promotion of the product. He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. But Im going to share it anyway, because it feels like the right thing to do.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. I build apps all the time, how hard could it be to launch a product?&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. 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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

are all expensive and potentially fatal distractions if done before you have found product/market fit and a repeatable sales model. Therefore when money is hard to come by, entrepreneurs (and their investors) look for ways to reduce cash burn rate and increase the chance of finding product/market fit before waste you bunch of money.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Micropreneur Academy Product Showcase is a place to showcase these products (currently eight are listed – there are at least that many not yet added). I will be adding many more in the coming months as members launch their products and request to be included in the showcase.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

Most product descriptions are awful. Product copy and product descriptions seems like such minor parts of a website in the grand scheme of conversion optimization , so many brands brush it off. In fact, some companies do product copy so well that it’s almost a feature of the product itself. Or worse, non-existent.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

billion acquisition of Sweden-based software company Mojang, the developer behind the popular building game ““Minecraft”, which has sold over 100 million copies since its release in 2009, illustrates the degree to which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s long-term vision for Microsoft is taking root at that company. Microsoft’s $2.5

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

When Bitcoin was launched a decade ago in 2009, it was produced at 50 Bitcoin per 10 minute rate. This production rate has decreased in the last four years. So, when the production decreased and the demand increased, it lead to a hike in the price of Bitcoin.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. Myth #2: I need to have a perfect product. Often, you will see a large company put enough marketing muscle behind a mediocre product to generate a profit from it. Myth #1: I need to get VC funding to make my company successful.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Twenty-five years ago, to go public you had to sell stuff – not just acquire users or have freemium products. People had to actually pay you for your product. This required a repeatable and scalable sales process, which required a professional sales staff and a product stable enough that customers wouldn’t return it.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

The one or two product mangers who should have known better glanced down at their shoes. Now I was cognizant I might find a customers that hated the products or company. Were our products a small part of their life or large? What did they know about our products? Has anyone ever spoken to a customer?” If so, where?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are We can put both little- and big-endian in the chip, and it won’t cost us more than 1,000 gates.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. We didnt think wed able to compete with that.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The Micropreneur Spotlight is a look at a Micropreneur Academy member who has launched their product. This episode’s Micropreneur is Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson who recently launched his online mind mapping software ThoughtMuse. == Rob: Hi Thomas. I’m a 31 year old Norwegian software developer.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh. The first step was to recruit a new management team.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer were all shuttered due to GM's bankruptcy, which occurred on June 1, 2009. In 2009, they were almost out of cash and building a prototype for a service that would send text messages to any mobile device. He saw the company shift its focus from personal computers to IT services and softwares.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. He doesnt put out crappy, buggy products and then ask for feedback.

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