Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards product development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with your FFF capital. If not, at the bare minimum you will need an interactable wireframe mockup that demonstrates the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Or it might mean selling a few products on a site like eBay to see how well they perform before ordering in bulk from a wholesaler. What sets this approach apart from practices like using focus groups is that companies base product development decisions not just on what customers say they want but on how they vote with their wallets.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). A couple of caveats about founders with “ideas.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). More than anything, it forced us to take advantage of necessity, the mother of invention. Heres what it looked like. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc. By contrast, most investments in traditional prevention are designed to anticipate and fix a specific problem. In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. Likewise, not a single designer gets approved to sell on Fab without Bradford’s input, review, and approval. Less is more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Why was a team this smart, this disciplined, and this committed to waste-free product development creating so much waste? Labels: split-test Innovation inside the box I was recently privy to a product prioritization meeting in a relatively large company. More importantly, the experience led to some soul-searching.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process. 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.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

In established companies, the MRD process ensures that engineering will build a product that appeals to existing customers in a known market, where customers and their needs are known. On a startup’s first day, there’s limited - if any - customer input for creating a formal product specification. MVPs for Web/Mobile Are Different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Eric) We made a few pencil drawings of what the app would look like which we then gave to a graphic designer. With that, the graphic designer created a Photoshop image. The LOI was designed to give us hard, non-bullshit-able feedback instantly. With that, the graphic designer created a Photoshop image.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ▼ October (7) A real Customer Advisory Board Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback. Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a resp. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Color Scheme Designer. Customer service. Event platforms.

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