Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. The Outside In organization had a one-way flow.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 29, 2013
Although every organization faces some uncertainty in developing new stuff, the conditions are not always extreme. For example, when your company adds ano ther blade to its disposal razors , the product’s technical development, marketing and sales will follow relatively predictable paths. in ten years? Glad you asked.
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Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 28, 2009
And while its true that metrics sometimes can lead to a better product, in my experience just as often they had led to no insight whatsoever, like fancy reports that nobody reads or after-the-fact rationalizations (with graphs!) We set sales targets from day one, $300 the first month. Labels: product development 4comments: Doug said.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker. Conclusion.
murkygrey.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Failing to protect Intellectual Property Coders handle one of your company’s most valuable assets: the code. Placing marketing functions away from the target market This mistake is common among foreign companies that start out with a development center in a low-cost locale and develop a product for the US market.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Or should I launch products and a startup for each of them, focusing on only 1 product at a time? I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. do something else.
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