Board Effect

JULY 10, 2023

By combining and analyzing these diverse data sets, board directors can gain a comprehensive perspective on market trends, identify opportunities for product development and service enhancement, and ultimately make informed decisions that drive the growth and success of their community bank.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product marketing informs strategic positioning and ensures alignment across the company. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Lemonade rarely mentions its product on Instagram.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In this post, we’re sharing a build vs. buy framework to help you consider the opportunity costs and make an informed decision on whether to buy software off the shelf or build a custom solution. How to decide when to build versus buy: A decision framework. Software requirements and consumer demands shift fast.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

You may remember Bala’s talk on supply-demand equilibrium at our data-driven marketplace meetup back in May 2017. Bala is a seasoned product, business, and technology leader. Question 1: How do you run experiments for product development in a two-sided marketplace? Demand side: high demand and low demand.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Or under product teams? Here’s a rundown of the frameworks, their functions, and the benefits and challenges of each. The center of excellence model is basically a combination of the above two frameworks, utilizing both a centralized team and also distributing optimization employees throughout the different departmental branches.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). ” Deeper Data Skills.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. This has led to exponential growth.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. The Use of a Product Development Model to Measure Sales Using the product development diagram for startup sales activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My career spans customer service, engineering, finance, product development, marketing, sales, and corporate functions. The web demands immense agility and flexibility within every company. Point solutions don’t scale, frameworks scale (and people are grateful you've taught them a different way to think).

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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. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. What about Django [link] as Web Development Framework?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Different tools for different needs and goals: Paras Chopra: “Why are we supporting server-side testing frameworks? Development resources are expensive, in time and cash, so enabling testing independent of product development is efficient. As Paras Chopra from VWO said in a blog post , the two aren’t in opposition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Different tools for different needs and goals: Paras Chopra: “Why are we supporting server-side testing frameworks? Development resources are expensive, in time and cash, so enabling testing independent of product development is efficient. As Paras Chopra from VWO said in a blog post , the two aren’t in opposition.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In this framework, we’ll tend to either invest in the proposed prevention or do nothing. It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). on demand billing and fraud management. Web Development Tools. open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. open source framework for app development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Reply Alan Urech , on May 13, 2009 at 7:03 am Said: As a Moot Bowl Judge who just returned from that competition (May 7-10, 2009), I think that Business Plans provide a framework for the judges and founders to understand the entire business. It provides a guideline for a methodical growth path for the company.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Different tools for different needs and goals: Paras Chopra: “Why are we supporting server-side testing frameworks? Development resources are expensive, in time and cash, so enabling testing independent of product development is efficient. As Paras Chopra from VWO said in a blog post , the two aren’t in opposition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. 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. He throws off volumes of code, and it works.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!)

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Business growth comes from improving one of these five “knobs”: More stuff means adding products or services, preferably those you know your customers want so you don’t waste time building things they won’t use or buy. For intrapreneurs, this means applying Lean methods to new product development, rather than starting an entirely new company.

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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. 5% I believe.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Tough sell.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? I mean a rockstar developer, you need a reliable, steady, bull-like technical partner.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.) are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Note: in a non-tech environment these would be R&D, product development, and sales/marketing.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

Today's primary use of the word programmatic refers to the use of ad exchanges, real-time bidding (RTB), Demand-side Platforms (DSPs) etc. Bonus read: See-Think-Do-Care: An Audience Intent Centric Business Framework.]. to deliver display ads. Yes, the banner kind (in many ad formats, sizes, and dynamism). Magnificent.

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