Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

However, the biggest mistake that a non-tech entrepreneur launching a tech business is to neglect bringing on a tech savvy co-founder on the management team. A technology plan can consist of: Technical Specs/High Level System Architecture (Web/Mobile, etc). Development Plan (Timelines/Costs/Budgets). Product Development Team.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

If we did anything egregiously wrong at Get Satisfaction in the 2010-1012 time period it was to under-invest in the product with the assumption that the existing product was good enough. Lastly, a foundational skill of great product managers is GSD. We should have been able to do both.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. Follow that up with another $120,000 round for design, additional development and branding. 1) Twitter. 8) Angry Birds.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Michael Pryor is the CEO of Trello, a cloud-based project management tool. Workiva helps companies manage and work. Thanks to Tiffany Payne, Replace Your Docs ! #9-

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We asked him a few questions to learn about continuous delivery, why it’s useful, and what engineers and management need to do to implement it. For example, in an enterprise context, moving to continuous delivery can mean making significant architectural changes and changing the culture of development, testing, and operations teams.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

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. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? General Management. Industrial research management. The Year of the Black Swan. Definitions of common financial terms. Customer Equity.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

THE SPEAKERS MELANIE DISALVO Melanie DiSalvo began her fashion career in product development after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Textile Development and Marketing program. in Mechanical Engineering (Product Design) and a B.A. She received a PhD & M.S. in Art History from Stanford University.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Better Pipeline Management. Having the latest and best possible data available on marketing, sales and CSR fronts can help lead to less waste through better pipeline management in production. A well-planned system integration architecture and toolkit are vital to the success of your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

And as Kapor himself points out, the core ideas have even older origins: The Roman architecture critic Vitruvius advanced the notion that well-designed buildings were those which exhibited firmness, commodity, and delight. When we work on a product in small increments, we accelerate feedback to each participant who works on the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. I suggested that we change the underlying architecture of our UI system so that the artists would be able to build their own UI pieces themselves and then integrate them into the product without requiring new code every time.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I am a lifetime member of the National Association of Business Executives (NABE), and their resources greatly help me in managing both personal and professional development. These are just two of the many reasons why I think you should consider being a member of an architectural professional group.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable. You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. I agree with the less is more product development approach, but for a different reason. Now that is fun.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Larry didn’t practice any kind of textbook management, but he was an intense communicator and inspiring leader. It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Back then he advocated for.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 18, 2010

1: In the middle of product development, CEO rewrites the specs (no doubt verbally), overruling the product managers and the engineers, and forces mid-stream changes in code architecture. #2: Let’s translate these two causes of failure into Internet-speak. #1:

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Thats a perfectly reasonable reaction, given that most releases of most products are bad news. Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better. Its likely that the new release will contain new bugs.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 4, 2016

This publication puts the spotlight on commercial interior design and architecture, an angle most other sites don’t take. Here you’ll find articles on outstanding workplaces, information and coverage of commercial interior products and product development trends, and in-depth stories from people in the know.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

These two extreme positions lead to factional strife in development teams, which is extremely unpleasant. Managers start to make a note of who’s on which faction, and then assign projects accordingly. My last job was as a build and release manager. I'd be constantly redefining done for developers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2010

million from the State of Texas through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) for the development of its module?integrated integrated microinverter and management system. SolarBridge Technologies announced that it has been awarded $1.5

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Today Christian announces his new company Tidemark and I finally get to tell you how he will redefine and reinvent enterprise performance management and, more broadly, data analytics. As a result, having data analysts analyze data and the managers of the business attempt to make decisions on that basis is far from optimal.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people. As a result, product development time was cut nearly in half in a three-year period.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Communication.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. Systems were put in place and professional managers with experience in building mission-critical products were hired. Akamai Going Forward.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. Just change it.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2004

While the number of coders may go down in an IT department, there will be ample opportunity for developers to move up the value chain into design, architecture, and product management. This is definitely what many of my companies that outsource development have experienced (see an earlier post ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. Support multiple sharding schemes. Easy to understand.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. A close mapping between your software architecture and your team architecture will be a big help here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The five whys methodology has been around for some time, not just as a continuous improvement technique, but as a general problem solving method in all areas of management. As a management consultant who concentrates on thinking and problem solving, I use it often. November 14, 2008 5:00 PM Tony said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

This is one of the most powerful aspects of web architecture, and it often gets lost in other client-server programming paradigms. As you suggest, Thought Experiment Part II is going to involve lots of changes to the classic MMO architecture that makes it more like the web. Thanks for the comments.

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