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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said.

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Lessons Learned: The metrics and levers of engagement.

Startup Lessons Learned

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. Customers remember that they received the notification and this impacts their behavior as well as the positioning of the product. Combining agile development with customer developm. So, in summary: 1.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. It would be good to spread understanding on this issue.

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Startup Resources

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questions and answers for non-programmers. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management. agile product management. Cloudomatic.

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. In other words, a marketing department. Expo SF (May.