Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

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. Relational architecture (a collection of data organized as a set of formally described tables) in the first place—all new stuff, and technically compelling.

Technical Review 333

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Funding – Knowing the right people (and how to pitch them) so your business gains additional capital for the things that matter like product development, hiring, service, and expansion. Here are but a few you and the business could stumble upon: 1.

Technical Review 180

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

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. Above all, the purpose of product development is to create value for customers. Technical design quality. Not all code needs to be scalable.

Part-Time VPE 100

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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. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

Lean 193

Lean Technical Review North America Startup 193

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I also think a lot of people underestimate the tax that having a hacked-together solution levies on your product development, even in the short term. For example, not having good system monitoring doesn’t just make developers’ jobs hard when they try to figure out why the servers are down at 3 a.m.,

Technology 334

Technology Ruby Startup Engineer 334

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC) , that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. Immigration: Continuing on the rise.

Architecture 258

Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 258

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

If you plan on doing it inhouse your CTO and the founders should be able to put together system requirements, technical specs and system architecture for you and then build wireframes and MVP if applicable. A technology plan can consist of: Technical Specs/High Level System Architecture (Web/Mobile, etc). Product Development Team.

CTO Hire 55

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Architecture Cofounder 55

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” According to Geoff Hedges, the founder of the CAD-focused blog creo.ptc.com, concept design is “a specific phase of the design process, within the product development process.” Hedges calls concept design as the initial big picture of your product. Contact us now!

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Product Development Design Developer Product 62

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. and by framing it as a binary choice I am perpetuating the problem in many ways.

Product 62

Product CTO Hire Architecture Startup 62

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With the existing product in mind, the $500,000 would be broken out evenly over the nine months with the first two months dedicated to design, specifically user architecture, brand and polish design. But if you were to replicate the product exactly, all those decisions are made for you.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

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. I expect we’ll look back on 2011 as the year that Gnip went from a highly product development focused company to a company that was firing on all cylinders.

CTO Hire 131

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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.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

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.

Agile 196

Agile Leadership Architecture Product Development 196

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?

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC), that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. Education: More students and different classes.

Architecture 209

Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 209

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.

San Francisco 151

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Even though some aspects of the product were eventually vindicated as good ones, the underlying architecture suffered from hard-to-change assumptions. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

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. Eric, Is this post about Architecture? Good luck, engineering manager.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy.

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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.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technology Philippines Silicon Valley 48

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention.

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Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 144

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

– born CEOs and heads of product development at successful companies, and learned that the average age of successful founders was 39. In the article ” The Case for Old Entrepreneurs ”, Stanford professor and Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa shared a 2008 study researching the backgrounds of nearly 700 U.S.

Entrepreneur 123

Entrepreneur SBA Architecture Washington 123

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Evidence-based customer-centric product development. User research is part of every project, may it be information architecture project, conversion optimisation project. You have to do the research for your product/service, website, because it always “depends” How much research should you do? 9/10 tests fail.

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Technical Review Agile Analytics Conversion 103

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? For how to manage that see, for instance, Queuing theory and product development or take some time to investigate resource management tools.)

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Technical Review Architecture 40

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

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. Often the biggest problem is building up trust between the developers and the people who deploy and operate the systems.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

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.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening. Thanks to Richard Mews, Sell With Richard ! #14- 14- The Farmstand. Photo Credit: Amrita Saigal.

Artificial Inteligence 77

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You’ll need to implement transformation of four supporting elements to achieve an excellent customer experience:technical architecture, robust and secure data, business operations, and the organization’s economic business model. Use Design Thinking 2.0 to build the future.

Customer 162

Customer Architecture Leadership Database 162

adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Everyone has to be a generalist and able to work on any kind of problem - specialists will be (at best) somewhat bored and (at worst) highly distracting because they want to steer product development into whatever realm they specialize in. Stage 2: The first hires.

Developer 92

Developer Database Architecture API 92

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The way the integration is developed, planned and put into action will have a strong effect on how much of an increase you may see, how well the components work together and the end usability for your employees. A well-planned system integration architecture and toolkit are vital to the success of your business.

Software 189

Software eCommerce Architecture Cash Position 189

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.

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC), that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. Education: More students and different classes.

Architecture 144

Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 144

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting? Building a good application architecture is not just coding. The "just fix it" mentality is counter-productive here. Just change it.

Software Review 94

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.

Technology 138

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices – [link]. Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link]. Full Set Of Credit Card Icons By Graphicpeel – [link]. 10 Useful Free WYSIWYG HTML Editors For Web-Based Application – [link]. 4 Concepts for Simplistic Web Design – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

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. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.)

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