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The Pre-Board Board: How to Create Accountability Before You Give Away a Board Seat

This is going to be BIG.

Over time, you’ll start building up more and more sophisticated ways of tracking and your reports will start to subdivide into functional areas like marketing, product development, and financials (when you have dedicated investor money or a limited pool of your own capital you’ve decided to invest).

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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How to Build a Great Product Before Hiring Your First PM

View from Seed

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. However, managing product development correctly is incredibly important in the earliest days and can make or break your company. Post-PMF: Key milestones the business needs to hit (e.g.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model. #5 at 9:42 am I agree with the point by Reader X that the Free/Premium model is a marketing strategy. 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?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

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. One product at a time wasn’t going to change the trajectory of the DOD. Connecting Systems End to End.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. The founders. Finally the board would fire the VP of sales.

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