The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The key to win those new customers was simplicity and intuitiveness. Your potential customer base grows as tools become simpler and easier to use, even non-coders can build a professional website with minimal effort. 2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). Does that apply in software world?

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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. In that time, CRMs have faithfully served as a place to store data, log notes, and manage contacts. Track interactions with ease. Go mobile or go home.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2021

Some of the processes which UX includes are interaction design, wireframes and prototypes, information architecture, user and market research, and many more. Information architecture, site mapping, and experience mapping. Creative designers, product managers, and project managers form the important members of the designing studio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. In these calculations, be sure to include indirect costs of remote work, such as more project management, more travel, and less efficient communication. For example, 90% of the software used in China and Vietnam today is pirated.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

This challenge has put immense pressure on CIOs to not only manage ever-growing data volumes, sources, and types, but to also support more and more data users as well as new and increasingly complex use cases. For companies, the situation is clear – their future depends on how quickly and efficiently they can turn data into accurate insights.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. In these calculations, be sure to include indirect costs of remote work, such as more project management, more travel, and less efficient communication. For example, 90% of the software used in China and Vietnam today is pirated.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

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. Once this product-first, customer-second, and employee-last culture is set, it is extremely hard to change. Provide an inviting and appropriate work environment. Place shapes culture.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. The best technologists often aren’t amazing people managers. They work on their own schedule and are often hard to manage. They care about the quality of what is build more than they care about end customers. Most often they are not.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 7, 2022

I also added to Fred’s list when I wrote Startup CEO , CEOs have to build and lead a board of directors, CEOs have to manage themselves, and CEOs ultimately have to think about and execute exits. No one can get on a plane and save a key customer from leaving you like you can. Third, do what you’re BEST IN CLASS at.

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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. It’s difficult to be an entrepreneur — whether you’re a recent college graduate or have managed multiple companies. When we graduate, we don’t really know what a “good customer” is.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2021

Some of the processes which UX includes are interaction design, wireframes and prototypes, information architecture, user and market research, and many more. Information architecture, site mapping, and experience mapping. Creative designers, product managers, and project managers form the important members of the designing studio.

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Mobile Partner Developer Technical Review 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Use existing team to find a new manager or peer. 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. Outsource your technical requirements.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

When we interview managers, one of our standard questions is “How do you think about code quality?” Architectural and software design integrity is very important to us. Typically, the solution will be presented in graphical form, such as a system architecture with flow diagrams. Value to customers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

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. It comes as no surprise that common vulnerabilities are still an attractive attack vector for hackers to gain access to sensitive data. So what can organizations do?

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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.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 24, 2015

Just as Apple built a time machine to protect Macs, Rubrik has built a powerful time machine for enterprise cloud infrastructure that unites data management with web-scale technology. A market size of epic proportions, a groundbreaking architectural approach, and a world-class founding team drove our decision to invest.

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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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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Customers are going to be happy to know that data will be safely coded from its source to its target. The company promises to provide recovery time object or RTOs within seconds and is definitely attracting many customers. Part of the reason this tool is so versatile is because it actually comes with an adaptive architecture.

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Security Software Review Azure Cloud 113

Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2023

I wanted to provide customers with a safe and reliable way to secure the funding they need. With our commitment to responsible lending, we make sure that our customers can access the funds they need while ensuring they remain in control of their finances. I started MaxCash Title Loans to give people secure access to finances.

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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. Infrastructure market moves way too fast and more software needed to help manage this chaos. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined.

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Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

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. So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?"

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Thanks to David Reyes, Reyes Financial Architecture ! #6- Breaking down larger tasks into manageable steps allows me to maintain focus & a sense of accomplishment. 10- By directly engaging with customers Photo Credit: Jordan Adair Firstly, setting precise, attainable goals is paramount. Thanks to Gabriele Asaro, Clash.gg !

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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. Risk reduction. Return on investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. In these calculations, be sure to include indirect costs of remote work, such as more project management, more travel, and less efficient communication. Outsourcing for services needs to be carefully managed.

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Software Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete 129

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Through a professional rental management company, your property can get higher returns. When choosing a rental management company, there are various factors to be considered. Barcelona Architecture. Here are 3 tips for picking the best rental management company, using features of Airbnb Barcelona as an example: Get references.

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Management Social Media Architecture Media 97

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.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts. Morgan Stanley predicts that Robo Advisors will manage $6.5 Transaction Processing.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

and more on point is that the best product is a result of what you learn from your customers, not what you think you should be doing. This is where we really erred in our approach, engineering and product management all report up to the CTO, and the company fundamentally underinvested in product management as a functional area.

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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. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Bulgaria Lean 374

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 8) Angry Birds.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 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. Risk reduction. Return on investment.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

By Ron Kaufman, author of “ Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues, and Everyone Else You Meet ”. With these building blocks in place, you’ll have the architecture to build a sustainable culture that delivers outstanding service every day. This is as true internally as it is with customers.

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Singapore Architecture Metrics Hiring 170

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 2, 2021

By monitoring the activities of your personnel, visitors, and customers, you can have absolute peace of mind knowing exactly what is happening under your roof. Exhibit Concern for Customer Safety. A competent business always puts the best interests of its customers first. Improves Outdoor Security. About the Author.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

As soon as you have more than one product manager, or more than one interaction designer, teams face this question. Alignment with User/Customer. Please note that I’m not referring here to internal customers or stakeholders; that’s below under alignment with business units. Alignment with Architecture.

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SCRUM Product Architecture Technical Review 63