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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Carlos Eduardo Espinal is a partner at Seedcamp , an early stage mentoring and investment program that engages startups through monthly Seedcamp Events, where entrepreneurs present their companies, network, receive mentoring, and compete for investment by Seedcamp. But you still must focus on customer conversations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application. A book that covers product development (quite specific).

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

This change that took all of five minutes to make, led to an 8x increase in paid conversions. Amazingly, this resulted in a 10x increase in paid conversions for the month. conversion rate to paid accounts initially and can convert 2% of the people that stick around for a year. Look at that again. That’s not 8%. That’s 800%.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. It would be good to spread understanding on this issue.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

We thought that would give us enough credibility to bring someone on board and enough money to even compete, at least in the short term, with some of the other salaries. that are a good place for non-tech people to start off with ? Michael Horn Great survey of realistic options for non-techies who want to start web companies.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. if you have some thoughts on this you could add to the conversation and provide some advice.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Although you can make more money by running per-click or per-action ads on a per conversion basis, it’s also a lot harder to bring about these actions. In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Although you can make more money by running per-click or per-action ads on a per conversion basis, it’s also a lot harder to bring about these actions. In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. This doesn’t make sense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. Customers remember that they received the notification and this impacts their behavior as well as the positioning of the product. Luckily, a great example of the power of positioning fell into my lap recently.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Why compete with Slack? We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. In other words, a marketing department.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Just make sure to not violate any non-competes, etc, in the process! link] Sean Murphy Two other events that are good for serious conversation among entrepreneurs are Bootstrapper Breakfast [link] and Hackers and Founders [link] Eli One of my professors told me to get an MBA to meet a co-founder. Same with Pets.com?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Why compete with Slack? We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research.

Differentiation 48

Differentiation Non-Compete Audio Algorithm 48

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He correctly identifies the three disciplines that have to be represented in a balanced and collaborative manner: developer, designer, distributer. Note: in a non-tech environment these would be R&D, product development, and sales/marketing. That will encompass a competent team.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Ruby on Rails lacks a CMS with the mindshare of, say, WordPress, which is good, because every unpatched Ruby on Rails CMS delivered to a non-technical company to serve as their website or backend to their mobile application will be compromised. I Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies. Recent Posts.

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Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. P.S. Do #1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In the middle of a serious conversation on the joys of motherhood or the stress of a career you might realize that the person you’re talking to is only 15. But to your point, you can't even have a conversation with them, they have made their decisions and moved on. But it also has some drawbacks. IMVU is one great tornado.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

questions and answers for non-programmers. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Great for visualizing work of product development. Cloudomatic. The Toolkbox. Batchbooks. Market Research. LaunchRock. Google Insights. Keyword Research. Google Keywords. Wordtracker. Traffic Research. SlideShare.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions.

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