The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

Product development involves the creation or modification of a product, satisfying a market niche or newly defined customer. Determine product development improvements shaping the world today, so you can make competent decisions about the product design process by reading further below. Urethane Casting. Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Spatial computing – with the launches of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 a new personal computing platform may evolve over the next decade.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

And they figure out how they could digitally enable their business – supply chain, customer interactions, etc. It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. Think about the competitive edge they’d have by today in business or as a nation. They’d steamroll everyone. What’s Different?

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

customer development. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. Some general customer development slides click here. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2011

If you are a business owner who is not an expert in web development, finding someone (or an agency) you can trust to build your website is critical. To help with your vetting process, here are eleven questions to ask your would-be developers before making a decision: 1. What do you do? What part of your job excites you?

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Web Development Web Developer Open Source 214

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I suggest looking for painful problems to solve, rather than “easier to use” or “nice to have” solutions, for customers with money. Customers line up to believe and buy from people who are viewed as leaders or experts relative to a specific solution. Collaborate with customers to tune your solution.

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Merger Acquisition Software Review Social Media 386

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in the classic book, “ The Data Driven Leader ,” by Jenny Dearborn and David Swanson.

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Analytics Hiring Open Source Employee 303

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

From Open Source LLMs, to new APIs, both startups and tech giants continue to push the envelope on what is possible to automate and improve using generative AI technologies. There’s a reason why OpenAI offers to cover the legal fees of business customers sued for copyright infringemen t. But they are still in business.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Open Source API 88

YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2017

In 2016, the Open Source Drives Digital Innovation study commissioned by Red-Hat and conducted by analyst house Forrester revealed that 52% of CIOs and senior IT decision makers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are already tapping open source software in areas such as cloud, mobility, big data and DevOps.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc. Yes, there are some events around particular technologies.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Investors can also be skittish, and winning new customers is not easy. Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving. In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries.

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Startup Technical Review Ghana Guerilla 198

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Open Source San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 107

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Teams talk to 10-15 customers a week and make a minimum of 100 customer visits.

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Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 281

Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

However, it’s not easy to do this on your own, and you should expect to hire a skilled developer to implement some of the more complex steps. One large advantage of WooCommerce is that it is an open-source platform, so there are hundreds of thousands of web teams who specialize in this technology. Template vs. custom design.

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eCommerce Development Team Review Hosting Security 149

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Magento e-commerce system is not very common in Russia where there are few serious implementations in domestic e-commerce, and there are almost no competent developers either. But in the world of CMS, Magento development now occupies a leading position. There is the free Open Source edition built by the community.

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Developer Technology Architecture Russia 132

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Node.js, a wonderfully passionate framework implemented to create a node JS shopping cart, is broadly utilized by developers around the planet. Source: Flickr. Node JS is an open source, cross-stage JavaScript run-time application which is utilized for the improvement of both Server side and customer side applications.

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Framework eCommerce Java Open Source 75

Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

110 researchers and clinicians, and Principal Investigators got out of the lab and hospital, and talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. clinical utility, customer, quality of data, reimbursement, what parts of the product are valuable, roles of CRO’s , and partners, etc.,)

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Lean SBIR Intellectual Property Customer Development 269

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Nils is an open-source aficionado. By grabbing millions of data points every day, he developed a passion for automating, scaling and distributing services at scale. The customer is Google’s user and how they prioritize user experience. Nils is an open-source aficionado. What role does hosting play?

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO Belgium 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in the classic book, “ The Data Driven Leader ,” by Jenny Dearborn and David Swanson.

Analytics 245

Analytics Metrics Employee Open Source 245

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Negotiate with Providers: Contact your software providers and explore the possibility of negotiating better pricing or customized packages that suit your specific requirements. Many providers are open to negotiation, especially for long-term contracts or bulk subscriptions. Automation reduces labor costs and minimizes errors.

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Software Review Technical Review Retention Cost 138

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2021

Iati is the C o-founder and CEO of Duda – a website development platform used by thousands of agencies around the world to build sites for their customers. 9:57] Is there an element of Dudas platform that has some of that extendability similarly to how WordPress is open source and allows people to develop around it? [11:33]

Web 94

Web Design Curation Software Review 94

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 ——-.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In the last decade open source software (e.g It’s the combination of Business Model Design and Customer Development. Business Model Design Gets Dynamic, Customer Development Gets Strategic. Yet Customer Development has no structured and systematic way of describing a business model.

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Customer Development Business Model Developer Customer 329

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Early in your startup’s development, you’ll likely be low on capital. But when you cut something that is essential in business — it is problematic; digital marketing is the best way for a startup to increase brand awareness and attract new paying customers. Rely on Open Source Software. Do you really need this?

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Startup Software Review Open Source Technical Review 106

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

When used correctly, tech can streamline operations, make work easier for your team, increase output, reduce costs, promote the business, keep customers happy and much more. Tech can also be an area that many businesses struggle with, especially as it seems to constantly be evolving and developing. Source: Pixabay.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2019

Creating your business’ website is an important step whether you plan to sell online or simply point prospective customers toward your brick and mortar location. It’s a platform—one that’s entirely under your own control—for helping customers to discover both your brand promise and what you offer. What puts a CMS website at risk?

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Open Source Security United States Reputation 116

Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For some reason many people discuss the problem of estimating software development timeframes without properly understanding the issue. “Software development” is such a huge endeavor that it doesn’t even make sense to talk about estimates without an understanding of the kinds of problems software can solve.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Developer 78

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. But the big payoff came when their discussions with medical device customers revealed an entirely new way to think about pricing —potentially tripling their revenue. His teenage daughter has Type 1 diabetes.

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Customer Churn Rate Customer Development Lean 323

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

What would a sales call look like, starting with your 30-second pitch, then dealing with skeptical questions, trying to earn this potential customer's interest, respect, and eventually money, all with only one advantage? Sometimes you're defending your product against what the potential customer perceives as a glaring lack of functionality.

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Open Source Dilution Software Developers Software Development 239

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The name is quite synonymous with the big data and is an open source application. Many of the companies have developed user-friendly alternatives and Cloudera is the most popular. Even it will allow the programmers to plug in over their custom mappers. It is an open-source data analytics cluster computer framework.

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SQL Software Review Open Source Distribution 127

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property Wiki Cofounder 153

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Even customers, while they all want the next big thing, want it to happen with minimal new learning. Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. Focus on customer needs rather than profits.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 285

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Trouble is, customers don't want more features, they want the right features. As the competition also adds features, they reach a critical mass where they have all the features 80% of your customers want, and then just having "more" is no longer an interesting selling point. But working harder is not, in fact, smarter. We're cheaper.

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Intellectual Property Bootstrapping Software Review Open Source 319

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2022

How can smaller companies benefit from technology development and implement AI assistants today? DeepPavlov.ai, is the team behind the open-source Conversational AI stack designed to enable faster and easier chatbots and AI-assistants’ development. Expectations vs. Reality . What is the Stumbling Block .

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Conversion Open Source Startup Framework 171

Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Defining Your Customers. Marketing strategies may be a complete waste if you don’t know who your customers are. An easy way to define your customers is by answering the simple question “what solution is your product or service offering for potential customer’s problem?”.

Social Media 97

Social Media Marketing Analytics Web Development 97

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88