ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The product design team helped them identify their users’ pain points and redesign the product to provide a more seamless customer experience. It makes the product more user-friendly and can also help build trust with customers and differentiate the product from competitors in the SaaS market.

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Design Product Churn Rate Architecture 105

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Magento e-commerce system is not very common in Russia where there are few serious implementations in domestic e-commerce, and there are almost no competent developers either. But in the world of CMS, Magento development now occupies a leading position. For instance, you can hire a dedicated magento developer at Elogic.

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Developer Technology Architecture Russia 134

Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

Besides unit testing, engineers also perform manual developer end-to-end testing. Even though developers are required to thoroughly test their code and regression test any impacted functionality, developers tend to be myopic in their testing. Developers will test from their own point of view, from having written the code.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Engineer Technical Review 100

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Sales teams have been using their CRMs for basic, day-to-day-functions — such as managing customer information and tracking purchase history — for decades. The technology acts as a virtual assistant that helps sales and customer service teams access important customer data with a simple voice command.

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Sales Non-Compete Mobile Cloud 124

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Once product software is written, it doesn’t take much effort to deliver it to customers.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

Most startups are created by one or two entrepreneurial founders, with a vision and focus on developing an innovative solution, rather than on developing people. In fact, most see a more direct relationship between customers and their business success, so employee focus by default will end up in third place.

Silicon Valley 143

Silicon Valley Retention Metrics Architecture 143

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Once product software is written, it doesn’t take much effort to deliver it to customers.

Intellectual Property 225

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this guide, we’ll discuss how to implement a brand reputation management strategy, use personal branding to develop a good reputation, and protect your company from developing a negative one. A positive reputation also contributes to business goals (such as growth, leveraging social proof , and network development).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

Today’s competitive environment requires adaptive and scalable infrastructures able to solve today’s challenges and address tomorrow’s needs; after all, the speed with which you process and analyze data may be the difference between winning and losing the next customer. To start, let’s consider the cloud question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rather than punish them, it may pay you to nurture and manage their outside-the-box thinking, and capitalize on their innovations that help your customers and keep you ahead of the competition. Sometime employees on your front lines have a better handle on what customers need next than external entrepreneurs.

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Employee Java Architecture Technical Review 133

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling.

Part-Time VPE 318

Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development.

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Business Plan Product Architecture Business Model 280

The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

You spend the next few months hustling: learning the market, meeting with potential customers, and forming a vision. As this vision begins to crystallize, you build what will become your minimally viable product and scramble to find your first customer. An impending event (iOS 7) required some re-architecture at a minimum.

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Mobile Architecture CTO Hire Engineer 129

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. When we graduate, we don’t really know what a “good customer” is. Other SaaS platforms in other industries may only need a few hundred customers. But he has passion.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2020

Learn more about how they’re creating exciting, customizable rides for customers while also working on cleaning up the environment. eCarra is a passenger car service built on a multi-tenant architecture. 2019 was all about the MVP, traction, software development, and infrastructure— we grossed $100,000. We’re creating a machine.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. The severity of potential damage tends to depend on the sensitivity of the data exposed – something that Equifax customers recently found out about painfully first-hand. The onset of death.

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Security Software Review Technical Review API 140

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Bulgaria Lean 374

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They often aren’t great at planning development work. They should be setting the standards for how code is developed.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 400

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

He also believes that startups often have an advantage in using technological advances to help them innovate customer experiences. “In But startups are also small enough not to have lost sight of the customer, the end user, Bo says. They’re the ones doing the disrupting, and their innovations are making waves.”.

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United Kingdom Technical Review Design Operations 113

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined.

Cloud 60

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Such direct experiences allows one to test critical “leap-of-faith” assumptions about what customers like and dislike.

Lean 193

Lean Technical Review North America Startup 193

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations. Ask the candidate about things they have built on their own, and what they do to challenge themselves.

Technical Review 230

Technical Review Technology Founder Management 230

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

Website information architecture is no joke, yet the overwhelming majority of businesses structure their site using the IMO method (“In my opinion…”). If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do a proper information architecture analysis. What is information architecture? One or two menus?

Architecture 114

Architecture Metadata Vertical Design 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development.

Business Plan 120

Business Plan Product Architecture Startup 120

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Customers are bombarded from all angles today for information to improve their user experience, yet they need to protect highly personal things. User privacy. Integration.

Technology 206

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 206

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 24, 2015

A market size of epic proportions, a groundbreaking architectural approach, and a world-class founding team drove our decision to invest. For example, enterprises using Rubrik can accelerate DevOps by provisioning on-demand infrastructure for application development and testing. A $47 Billion Data Management Market. A World-Class Team.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cofounder Application Development Engineer 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations. Ask the candidate about things they have built on their own, and what they do to challenge themselves.

Technical Review 236

Technical Review Partner Entrepreneur Architecture 236

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It didn’t become an innovation until it was developed and deployed at scale. that the Nazis – who got the idea from Goddard’s papers – developed missiles and jet aircraft first. And there’s a unique skill set that needs to be developed. Step 2 : Develop a proposal to address your problem. That was a great invention.

Technical Review 322

Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 322

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks. At this stage, the team is seeking market and customer validation metrics. The MVP is the most pared-down version of a product that customers are willing to purchase or use. The value inflection points include: Minimum Viable Category (MVC).

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Cleveland Framework Marketing Early Stage 150

View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Google’s strategy is to build around hiring these generalists, but that might not be the case if you’re at a startup — maybe you want someone who has a bit of experience with front-end development, so you’re fine specializing. In any production-oriented job (writing, design, development, etc.),

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Engineer Software Review Founder 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Customers are bombarded from all angles today for information to improve their user experience, yet they need to protect highly personal things. User privacy. Integration.

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Agile Startup Architecture Distribution 230

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88