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. ” (via NN/g).

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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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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Before I tell you what I like and don’t like about Kajabi based on what I know so far, I should point out what exactly the service is designed to do. I like that the platform runs off cloud hosting so you don’t need to look for any special media hosting in addition to what you are paying for. What Is Kajabi?

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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. These specs are handed to a designer, who builds layouts and mockups of all the salient points.

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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. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Yet it had one huge advantage.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A/B Tasty is yet another testing tool designed for the masses, this one hailing from France. 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. Can offer much better data due to true user basis then tools like GO or Optimizely. It’s not cheap.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

This most likely involves a combination of an operational team (cloud, enterprise, commerce, etc) and the corporate development team, led by Don Harrison. Notable acquisitions include Youtube and Nest, or more recently smart glasses manufacturer North or wearable tracker FitBit (under review).

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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

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. It might be more precise to categorize them of two kinds of flaws: flaws in implementation, and flaws in design. Im keen on the two-kinds-of-bugs thing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Reinertsen is keenly aware of what makes product development different from other business functions, like manufacturing, that we sometimes use as a metaphor. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible. Hence the need for partitioning our resources into a separate problem team and solution team.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

The history is important but trying to use the trajectory of history to predict the future is a strategy fraught with peril and SAP should be mindful of the fact that history reveals a continuing series of disruptive developments that upend incumbents with increasing speed and violence. And all mobile.

Database 39

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). CEOs still don't get it. CMOs don't grasp the implication of this shift in consumer behavior.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

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. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

From Strategy to Development Whether you are out-sourcing or developing in-house there are two ways to build a system: Give your developers a rough idea of what to build and keep iterating the design as they build it; Give your developers detailed documentation of what to build. Write them as a chronological story.

Web 40

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant. These are two other Extreme Programming practices that are explicitly designed to counteract the problems inherent in this situation.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. Placement on the list was determined by a combination of the company’s G/SCORE assessment, stage and pace of growth, and business potential.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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