sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos. Thanks you!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I spent an entire hour watching the sales video for a new product you probably have heard of, it’s called… Kajabi You can watch the video for yourself right here – What Is Kajabi? Rather than me go through the entire set of features, you’re better off watching the video if you want a more in-depth look.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

VentureHacks did a great summary , which includes slides and video. The theory of Product/Market Fit is one key component of customer development, and I highly recommend Marcs essay on that topic. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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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. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

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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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. Reply # Marcos Polanco · Dec 9, 2009 Just got video of Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan addressing the factors in picking co-founders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

” We knew we wanted to do some sort of consulting work and we settled on… We thought we had some interesting things to say about teams in organizations. So when we started we were more broadly leadership development, team development across organizations. And they have a lot of micro clips, some larger videos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. Expo SF (May.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

We do have some feature tricks up our sleeve and an incredible ability to expand our model into adjacent businesses (you’ll see a lot of this from us in 2010). This entry was written by Niel Robertson and posted on March 31, 2010 at 11:12 am and filed under Trada News. link] links for 2010-04-10 | Brian Magierski [.] Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. A project usually has an absolute duration and budget whereas the time and money dedicated to development within the project is where the tradeoffs are made.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. Here's a graph that shows how US adults consume media, it shows time in hours. Surely you are not surprised that digital finally beats TV. What was surprising, even to me (!),

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