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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Technologies They Most Look Forward to

Hearpreneur

It’s amazing how new technology keeps coming up. As a business owner, you must keep up with these technological improvements and perhaps adopt some to improve efficiency. They help improve your team's productivity and automate your team's business processes and processes in your business. Photo Credit: Ed Shway.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users).

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users).

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

Best practices for developing a brand identity Here are some best practices to consider when developing a brand identity for your SaaS platform: Define your brand values: Define your SaaS business model, brand values, mission, and vision. FAQs How to build a SaaS product architecture? Choose the right technology stack.

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Every New Venture Needs A Product And A Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

A product plan has tremendous value inward facing, telling your product people what to build, while the business plan has maximum value outward facing, explaining to the rest of the world how your new company will survive and prosper. A product plan is never a substitute for a business plan. Provide details on the business model.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers. Their engineers hated us.

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7 Ways To Keep Your Focus On Execution After The Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

Many other companies have followed a similar set of execution principles which I believe are required for business success, no matter how great the idea: Tune the business model to optimize value for all constituents. Continuous improvement applies to the business model as well as the product.