Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints. At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies. Startups can do anything.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year.

Artificial Inteligence 388

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Product development. Now that you have a refined product idea and a team that can turn this idea into reality, the product development stage will start. Initial product development usually consists of prototyping and MVP. Prototyping usually means the initial working draft of the product idea.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Yet, even though our team had experience with several previous successful acquisitions, after the initial rush of excitement, the hard reality of bringing together two separate entities set in. Integrating an acquisition is difficult in the best of circumstances and can often fail to meet stakeholders’ expectations.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. Product development and maintenance are important, but you’ll also need customer support when you launch your new product, featureset, or conduct a handover.

Software Review 96

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Switch your focus from product development to sales. Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth. Now is the time to start buying your competitors, rather than just crushing them, or trying to develop enough new products internally to overrun them.

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Gust

OCTOBER 6, 2011

In my conversations with people in the startup world – from angel investors through entrepreneurs and employees with vast startup experience – I often hear about their perceptions of the marketing role as being pretty limited to acquisition. Second – timely, cost-effective customer acquisition is a matter of life-or-death to most startups.

Acquisition 87

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2016

Product managers should also understand the company’s goals. It is one of the most important processes in a product development lifecycle to deliver the product. The product itself can be ideal and work faultlessly, but what really matters is how it enters the market. necessary product. necessary product.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

times more likely to spend more than one standard deviation above the average on customer acquisition. Inconsistent startup outsource 4-5 times as much of their product development than consistent startups. In the validation phase, where startups should be testing demand for a functional product, inconsistent startups are 2.2

Silicon Valley 189

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. Not for some short-time “lets flip the company” strategy but an eye for who, how and when you can make an acquisition happen. Unfortunately, it’s the rare VC who has already built an acquisition roadmap. ——-. The Good News.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

It lets you clearly identify which activities are the main contributors to your acquisition goals. It is a task organizer tool that helps you sort your team’s development efforts efficiently. With Trello, all aspects of product development can be centralized in one location for your entire team to access.

Software Review 113

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale. Enterprise products that present a high-value daily utility for the people involved can have a high virality potential. CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

Develop products customers want. Figuring out what customers want and what they will purchase is one of the holy grails of product development. Small details like these really can make a huge difference in your company’s product development, marketing, and overall strategy.

Analytics 100

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

These lost startups land higher valuations, have larger teams, outsource more product development and spend more money on customer acquisition than their peers. Before you indulge in marketing, sales and blinged-out offices, find product-market fit. How do you know you have it?

Startup 78

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Brandanew

APRIL 25, 2016

You can spend your energy towards client acquisition, collaboration, and product development. Many Startup and small business owners decide to take off without any external help and aim to scale the Content Everest all alone by themselves. Remember, your time is cost too.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

For today’s business owners, innovation is no longer relegated to just advertising campaigns, product development, or talent acquisition. Getting innovative also means developing strategies for reducing operational costs while creating a wider margin between revenue and expenditures.

Cloud 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Outside investors are most interested in scaling a proven business model, not research and development. Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Most founders bootstrap product development. Fabulous solutions require great technology.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. To find allies, ask : Which departments indirectly use your product and have connections to people in the user roles you’re targeting? Include notes from your internal team that explain how insights are influencing product development. It slows product development.

Design 111

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. It’s a really big idea because what you build needs to match the hypothesis you want to test.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But rather than spending marketing dollars on expensive, bottom-of-funnel ad buys—or on content that attempts to explain the value of a product—a product-led strategy lets consumers create their own “Aha!” Consumer psychology also suggests why product-led strategies may enjoy more success : Endowment effect. Free-trial models.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Companies can improve their efficiency, productivity, and responsiveness with the aid of these solutions. Companies can reallocate resources back into core business activities and new product development by streamlining IT operations. Q: How important is customer acquisition for IT management firms?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This can include: Fund raising, product development choices, sales, marketing effectiveness, competition, business development, M&A … whatever. We think it will have a 30% attach rate to our core product. But what are the KEY ISSUES management is grappling with.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. – [link].

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Internet analytics can be roughly broken down into two simple activities – customer acquisition and customer optimization. Nearly every Internet company on the planet has invested in some form of the first activity, customer acquisition. Customer acquisition efforts are pervasive in our industry. 71 Things to A/B Test.

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Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Working with Students, Teachers, Schools for Product Development. The problems of product development and customer acquisition are just a few of the barriers that ed-tech startups face. Starting a startup nowadays is increasingly a collaboration with the earliest users," Graham writes.

Incubator 116

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By outsourcing the order fulfilment process, you can save valuable time and resources that can be better invested in other areas of your business, such as product development, marketing, and customer acquisition.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. These channels should take priority.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Chanty was, at its outset, a fun side project.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

One popular type of strategy is market penetration, which focuses on increasing sales of current products in existing markets. Another strategy is product development, which involves creating new offerings to satisfy customer needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” The use of qualitative research and quantitative data analysis to gain deep insights into user behavior.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Hyatt, founder of Conduit Labs , gave a talk on Tuesday entitled “Off The Record,” about the predictive approach to product development. Shah, founder and CTO of Hubspot , spoke on Monday afternoon about inbound marketing for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Beyond Lenovo’s famous acquisition of IBM’s PC business, entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda bought American cinema operator AMC Entertainment followed by British yacht builder Sunseeker. A key point to note here is that developing halal products doesn’t limit a company from cross-selling to non-Muslims.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia China 171

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

While Durant was a great entrepreneur, the integration of the companies and suppliers was difficult, a recession had just hit, and GM was overextended with $20 million in debt ($250 million in 2018 dollars) from all the acquisitions and was about to run out of cash. Durant’s bankers and board fired him from the company he had founded.

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Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. The best VC-backed exits are bought, not sold.

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