Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

. (this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

——— Yuri, one of my ex students started a big-data analytics company last year. He turned his PhD thesis into a killer product, got it funded and now was CEO of a company of 30. It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. We’re building the wrong product!”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

It’s common, perhaps the norm, for startups to pivot like that—to discover that a product is catching on in unintended ways worth pursuing. Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. One of those pros was John Powers , head of the Stanford endowment.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2016

by Steve Hershberger, co-founder and CEO of SteadyServ Technologies. Most entrepreneurs expect obstacles on the path to bringing a product or service to market, but they might not know how to push past that final roadblock. Confirm your product or service works. Do people believe your product or service works?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. I had it all set up to a jury-rigged SurveyMonkey - PayPal minimum viable product. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2019

I mean, not just the obvious ones who have direct substitutional products, but also the ones who indirectly affect usage of your offerings today and who might have a massive impact on your value offerings in the near future? Let’s explore the 6 degrees of competition through a simple product: Coffee. So far, so good.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. Usability testing is great for coming up with ideas about what to change in your product, but dont forget to split-test those ideas to make sure they work, too. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Recently the market demand has been outpacing their ability to keep up, so they turned to OneTrueFan as a means of accelerating their product development and overall growth. When there is a great fit, I love seeing our portfolio companies make acquisitions. Todd and Eric have been friends of mine for a long time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

Like previous years, the 2015 conference will feature 100+ expert speakers on topics ranging from corporate entrepreneurship to analytics, product development, engineering, sales, marketing, and design. We’ll be back in 2015!” - Mary Drotar, co-founder at Strategy 2 Market'

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 3, 2009 Minimum Viable Product: a guide One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. MVP, despite the name, is not about creating minimal products. We have to manage to learn something from our first product iteration.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. . And of course we had, TheMan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean Startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas. Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And once you have a relationship with an author, musician, or journalist, it will be quite easy for them to offer new products and services – and for you to give them feedback that helps them shape ever more interesting (and ever more profitable) offerings. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Co-located in Shanghai and San Francisco, the AirPop product brand is a line of sensing, high-efficiency air pollution accessories for 4 billion+ people breathing pervasive ambient air pollution. AirPop’s co-founder Chris Hosmer (pictured above) answered our questions for this interview. the creation of new products.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? Establish baseline metrics by building the minimum viable product — the minimum required to measure the response of early adopters. Then, in each development cycle, use the insights gained by studying customers to make improvements.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? Later joined by Jonathan Seelig, an MIT Sloan MBA student, the Akamai team raised an $8 million Series A based on the lab prototype in order to commercialize the product. Really hard.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. Product and Engineering. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development. First Round Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website. SEM is a simple idea. chatted once?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Integrate Google Analytics experiments with your service (e.g., Pete Koomen , co-founder of Optimizely , summed it up well: Pete Koomen: “The advantage of testing on the client side is speed and simplicity. Client-side tools let marketers run tests accurately without the help of developers.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Integrate Google Analytics experiments with your service (e.g., Pete Koomen , co-founder of Optimizely , summed it up well: Pete Koomen: “The advantage of testing on the client side is speed and simplicity. Client-side tools let marketers run tests accurately without the help of developers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Heres the working definition Ive started using: A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. A: have them deploy code to production on their first day as an employee. Trial and Error + Analytics? made a big impression. How does this map to the web?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Each five whys email is a teaching document. and so forth.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Integrate Google Analytics experiments with your service (e.g. Pete Koomen , co-founder of Optimizely , summed it up well: Pete Koomen: “The advantage of testing on the client side is speed and simplicity. Client-side tools let marketers run tests accurately without the help of developers.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Virtually every production system has security bugs in it. The first reported compromise of a production system was in an industry which hit the trifecta of amateurs-at-the-helm, seedy-industry-by-nature, and under-constant-attack. Ruby on Rails security sucks lolz amirite? Well, no to the nuance. Was anyone actually compromised?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? So GoodData is an actual easy-to-use analytics package. Marc Andreessen: Yeah. Why would you do that?

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unbounce.com

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Do you use bullet points to describe the benefits of your product/service? Does your landing page explain how your product/service is unique (USP)? Did you resist asking for any unnecessary information in a form (be completely honest cos it’s bad)? Oli is Co-Founder & Creative Director at Unbounce.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â??

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The risk of incorporating a bunch of brand-new volunteers is much lower if you have good analytics about their performance. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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