Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Here is their and my perspective on the most common problems that will threaten your survival: People are the problem and the solution.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a marketing growth strategy to increase your market penetration, market share, and revenue. It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Product development. And fail fast.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Per the same Randstad article, international tech companies and investors consider Canada as a place to do business. Per an Industry West Magazine article , the tech sector in the province accounts for 2.5% Developing a popular mobile scheduling app, they raised $1.2 of all business. million in venture capital to move.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Here is their and my perspective on the most common problems that will threaten your survival: People are the problem and the solution.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale. Related articles. CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars. In most cases, they hit the jackpot when their products are sold for millions. In this article, we will discuss why it is important to understand the whole startup stages concept before you start a business to get the most benefit.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

However, when it comes to MLM product development, marketing ideas and compensation plan strategy, being a creative copycat could be a legal and ethical shortcut to achieving your business goals for your new MLM, party plan or direct selling company. The same goes for new MLM product development. Reinvent the Market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2021

There were product development problems, pricing problems, and early customers who demanded more features and delayed contractual payments. For all you founders out there, if you find this article anonymously taped to your computer, it might be time to take a hard look at yourself in the mirror. It could save your startup!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. What other questions would you ask a brand-new startup about its product development practices? Please leave feedback!)

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Some companies, on the other hand, address very specific types of audiences: the key, here, is to remember that an understanding of the core customer is just as important as product development / technical expertise as an asset to the company. article discusses our tendency to hire people who look and think like we do.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

In today’s dynamic market, simply having a good product or service isn’t enough. This article will explore some effective strategies for achieving business growth, covering essential aspects from understanding your market to enhancing customer experience. Customer feedback is a goldmine for innovation.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I wrote an article for American Express Open Forum outlining the 7 Advantages of an Old Entrepreneur. 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. Old Entrepreneurs Rule. Because I’m from Jersey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2010

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Here is my perspective on the most common problems that will threaten your survival: People are the problem and the solution.

Advisory Board 125

Advisory Board Startup Forecast Early Stage 125

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this article, we will explore the benefits of eBay fulfilment through a 3PL provider, a service designed to streamline your order management needs and optimise your eBay business. With millions of active users and a global reach, eBay provides immense opportunities for sellers to reach a wide audience.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? Image Source. Image source.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Some companies, on the other hand, address very specific types of audiences: the key, here, is to remember that an understanding of the core customer is just as important as product development / technical expertise as an asset to the company. article discusses our tendency to hire people who look and think like we do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This article aims to provide essential tips that will help budding entrepreneurs navigate the complex yet exciting world of business. Invest in tools that help you collect and analyze data, and use these insights to refine your marketing strategies, product development, and customer service.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products. You need to give them advance notice of your product development or better yet let them help influence your direction. You need to give them “back stage&# passes to your company.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” If this is the first article you’ve read on growth marketing, you may be disillusioned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Just as Durant had multiple interests, Musk is not only Tesla’s CEO and Product Architect, overseeing all product development, engineering, and design. Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. I posted this as a contributed article on Techcrunch.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). AI and automatic optimization.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

Still, every article I read turns the creative process of business and product design into Vulcanian objectivity. Now sure, there are many of aspects of business and product development where it's best to stop obsessing and just cut corners. Sometimes, you should do something just because it's cool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. Unlike previous cross-posting Ive done for blogs, where a lot of the discussion happens here, Id like to ask you to take a minute and click through to read the full article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2010

There were product development problems, pricing problems, and early customers who demanded more features and delayed contractual payments. For all you Founders out there, if you find this article anonymously taped to your computer, it might be time to take a hard look at yourself in the mirror. It could save your startup!

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Technical Review Startup Founder Demand 131

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. #9- A merger of two companies. Photo Credit: Roy Morejon. Hence my business name. Thanks to Julie Ann, Adaptable Mama !

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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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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. We could see it in our analytics clear as day—each week we saw a flood of users come back to the site to read the articles. Swimming with Sharks. Growth teams are like those sharks.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

In my last article I discussed the role of the leader of the product organization. ” I include a short description of each dimension below but if any of the areas are unclear there are typically articles in the SVPG article archive (see www.svpg.com/articles) covering each.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of Agile Development And Customer Development View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

In a way, you can think of BD as “sales when you don’t know what the product is yet.” It’s basically working with potential outside partners to reach your business goals--which could be revenue, distribution, financing, product development, awareness, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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