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 Advisory Board + Architecture
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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | STEVE BLANK SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 Less is More, More or Less We had put together an advisory board, and one of our advisors was the VP of Database Marketing at Schwab. It took two meetings before I finally got what she was trying to tell me – we understood her problem all right, but our architecture was missing the most important feature to solve it. All the Data and Not a Drop to Think. | STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED OCTOBER 5, 2009 The curse of prevention It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. have detected a secret virus in your CPU. | STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED JULY 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. The downside was that we had to combine dozens of projects whose internal architectures, coding styles, and general quality varied widely. Remember Hamlet? It was still a good trade. Thanks so much.) | STARTUP MUSINGS APRIL 28, 2011 Product Planning Series: Project Management Determine high level navigation architecture (what are the organizing principles of the information and actions you can take on this web app? Server side architecture design finalized. Customer Advisory Board (CAB) assembled, ready to advice program team on features and benefits. Server set up, ready for development. | | | | | | | |
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500 HATS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own.
I've experienced first-hand the kind of verbal clusterf*&k that goes on during a funded start-up's board meeting when all or most of the investors know jack about contemporary forms of marketing, or worse were EVP or CMO of such and such B2B enterprise software 5-10 years ago (and think they are mktg gurus). Part II! er, Dorsey. MORE >> -
ANDREWCHENBLOG.COM | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010  Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps
You can invite them to be part of a 'customer advisory board&# that you can gather informal feedback from everything from company policies to new products. Choice architecture is among the most complex worlds one could study. @AndrewChen New here? Like really talked to them? You really don’t have to do much work. MORE >> -
SEED STAGE CAPITAL | MONDAY, JULY 11, 2011  Startup Financial Models and Forecasts: Part II.
The best startup financial models are: Logical: The architecture, assumptions, and inputs used should all be logical, with the model accurately reflecting your business and its economics. You can read that post here. In this post, I discuss what makes a model a "good" model. For example, let’s say you have an ad supported website. MORE >> -
WWW.ROCKETWATCHER.COM | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011  How to Name Your Startup
Most startups start out with only 1 or 2 offerings and often aren’t thinking about how things might fit into a naming architecture. advisory board. advisory council. Rocket Watcher: Product Marketing for Startups. by April Dunford. Home About Speaking Contact. Startups. Product Marketing. Messaging. Social Media. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009 Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal
The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. Order Here. Now In Print! MORE >>
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