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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. It debuted in the morning at $13, ended the day at $11.