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

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What would it be worth to save your sales department time and frustration by having a sanitised contact list that is updated as needed by any department in contact with your clients? A well-planned system integration architecture and toolkit are vital to the success of your business. Speed Up the Cash Flow Cycle.

Software 189

Software eCommerce Architecture Cash Position 189

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. Of course, the sales folks had new features as their #1 priority.

Software Review 164

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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? Marketing and sales. The minimum viable product. Metrics for cyclical businesses. Let the Games Begin! Stock buybacks. The Year of the Black Swan.

CTO 40

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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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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

It’s a great alignment, because when you think about it, processes cover the import aspects of a business—product development process, sales process, financial planning process, etc. Tidemark enables companies to capture their process architecture and the related key performance indicators in software.

Romania 78

Romania Architecture Analytics Cloud 78

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 14, 2013

Work Design Magazine has 5,000 email subscribers who comprise a variety of audience types within the commercial architecture and design industry. How does lean content integrate into the rest of the lean product development cycle? We''ve got a new batch on sale today, so register now for the best price.'

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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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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

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

ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

Social Media 128

Social Media Media Marketing Database 128

ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

Social Media 127

Social Media Media Marketing Database 127

ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

Social Media 126

Social Media Media Marketing Database 126

ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Database Channel 79

ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

Social Media 69

Social Media Media Marketing Database 69

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Speed up the time it takes to test assumptions, no reason to waste sales by waiting. Relevancy leads to sales. Use the findings from talking to people, surveys and analytics data to write the copy on your site and decide on the information architecture. Conclusion.

Audience 122

Audience Analytics B2B eCommerce 122

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales.

DC 90

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. if you’re just offering a product for sale? 94 AX on 09.29.10

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Perrigo, which recorded net sales of $2.7 INTEL-ISRAEL DEVELOPS NEW CHIP “SANDY BRIDGE”. The new architecture will be installed in all standard computer products lines (i.e.

Architecture 92

Architecture Dividend Minneapolis 92

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. Selling JAIC Like Enterprise Sales. I organized my missions teams like an enterprise sales team.

Artificial Inteligence 388

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Notwithstanding examples like Plentyofish, people respond to well designed, well branded products, and that can be important in getting traction early on. When I say viable, I mean something that can generate sales.

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

The engineering team has decided its reached a breaking point, and is taking several weeks to bring it up to modern standards, including unit tests, getting started with continuous integration , and a new MVC architecture. On the other, they already have a team fully engaged on making their product architecture better.

San Francisco 79

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 79

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

it really doesn’t matter if you’re not in SV, i think that’s what the author is trying to say [link] tenthings what he’s saying is he partnered up with engineers, not with other business grads/entrepreneurs, and that’s what’s important to have a team that can produce the product not just market it.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

The growth system is broken: product, marketing and sales are siloed. Sales compensation is a rule. Development = rules. Evidence-based customer-centric product development. Map out the sales narrative. It’s not about more leads, but better leads. That’s a problem. Pricing is a rule.

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Technical Review Agile Analytics Conversion 103