TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Small Business Force

DECEMBER 12, 2013

And that means if you are going to have any chance at long-term success with your product development you have to engage your customers and your market. Subscribe to industry newsletters, blogs, etc. Convince some or all of the review group of customers (as described in the previous idea) to be "beta users" of the product.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. You can Google ideas and see what the autocomplete dishes out, ask your friends (also a great resource for foreign language keywords), research your competitors’ keywords, scan your AppStore reviews for hints, or my favorite – use Twitter. Isn’t that fun?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Anything you read on popular blogs is also read by everyone else. During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Here's one tiny example: I give talks on peer code review at conferences. Now Adriana has an epiphany?

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Then something happened to the CMS market, and a more democratic and user-led effort began with the rise of the blog. The entry of the blog didn't help matters. While blogs can and are used as CMS, they really are poor substitutes. Most CMS's are still the province of the dev team, and protected as such.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. If you don’t know WHY you’re adding features don’t do it just because you have a development team.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

While having a great medical website is important, so is maintaining an incredible blog. Blogs are important because they generally enable you to engage your audience in a personal manner that helps accelerate the relationship-building process. Hiring The Right Web Design And Development Team. Share Buttons. fair pricing.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

So many are distracted by the bleeding-edge techniques and purported algorithm tweaks hyped on SEO blogs and Twitter. Blogs are the easiest way to get content out quickly and consistently. We’ve been fortunate enough to be the leading team on our blog, so at least half the content is for SEO audience-interest purposes.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Blog posts by your development team explain the complexities of how the AI system works, highlight how you gather and parse training data, and list use cases befitting Fortune 500 clients. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. Have a broad review process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

So you’ve developed your dream app and uploaded it to the market, eagerly waiting for a flood of downloads to propel your product to stardom. But despite announcing it on your Facebook page and getting some positive reviews, you can’t seem to get past 50 downloads a day. Here are some of my top tips: 1. The second time is meaningful.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. If you are a technology consultant and your name should be on this list, add a comment to this blog entry or contact me directly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review!

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

before visitors have time to suffer through friction and other “conversion killers” When conducting quality assurance, frequently referred to as QA, you’ll work closely with the development team to ensure everything looks and works correctly on all relevant devices and on all relevant browsers.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2020

ZoomInfo solved misalignment by creating a service-level agreement that required a dedicated member of their sales team to call MQLs: ZoomInfo had long struggled with warm MQLs. We tried giving them to our sales development team, then tried our special sales SWAT team. It’s marketing without a target audience.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools. PM OK, agree.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. We have a blog that''s internal-only to capture important stories for prosperity. The result was a new process of four-week iterative cycles all about throttling new code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Interestingly, one of the first things that you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good Quality Assurance organization cannot build a high quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. What is the quality of your company’s written performance reviews?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. Business development teams can use CRMs statistics and reporting features to inform decisions and track potential leads.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

– and then sign up for a 14 day trial (the trial option may be over depending when you read this blog post). I wrote previously about Kajabi and some of the competing content marketing systems available to us who sell information online in this blog post – Which Content Management System Is Best For Selling Information Online?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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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. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. A book I am looking forward to read after reading you blog.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. Here’s a review from Johann Van Tonder of AWA Digital : Johann Van Tonder.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Blogging tools, video hosting services, image hosting services and the like, all make this a very accessible place to start up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. It seems like the approach du jour is blog first, fundraise second. One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next. Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed. The Development Team. This helps to de-silo marketing teams and get more work done.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# Feel free to follow me on Twitter to get notifications of later posts on this topic, both here and on the Meebo Blog. Honestly assess your own strengths and weaknesses thoroughly.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you like it, check out his blog and Twitter. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. Reply # Melanie Curtiss · May 5, 2010 Thank you for this blog post.

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