Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

When I began developing the customer search engine SocialCentiv using Twitter, I envisioned the project as an add-on to our already popular SocialCompass. To determine whether there was real demand for SocialCentiv, I set out to collect some data. 3 Signs You Need a New Product, Not a Product Addition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

As a startup advisor and angel investor, I tend to focus on the much longer list of ways your startup can fail, based on my own experience and inside knowledge from peers who you will never see highlighted on the Internet. It’s a good way to get some inspiration, but not an accurate representation of reality.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. Life is not a box of chocolates and startups are not always easy to start. There is a complete process that governs the startup lifecycle including inception to exit. They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, in June released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. 74% of high growth internet startups fail due to premature scaling.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

In 2018, Canada had a record-low unemployment rate and as a result we are seeing more companies, startups and online-based businesses dedicated to serving the niche-jobs industry. New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Tech Association listed five tech jobs in high demand until 2021.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

In a recent Twitter post, Suumit Shah, CEO of the Indian startup Dukaan , revealed that the company had replaced 90% of its support staff with an artificial intelligence chatbot. He also detailed the rapid development of the AI platform and bot to meet the demand for personal AI assistants among Dukaan’s clientele.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2021

A few years ago I was intimately involved with a promising startup that taught me about this issue. It’s not a disease, but it can kill your startup. In the beginning, we all found our startup founder to be dynamic, driven, and decisive. It could save your startup! He had a clear vision of what his organization could be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Countless startup teams have already been spawned from these.

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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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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

Every new startup is exciting. However, many startups also suffer from growing too fast too soon, which is unsustainable for many companies. Rather than change anything, they become the latest in a long line of the costliest startup failures resigned to history and a case study on what not to do to avoid a startup flameout.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For those companies operating in a dynamic market driven by user behavior, for example, retail and eCommerce, staying trends-aware equals staying competitive by tailoring their offers to the specific demands and expectations. Creating a perfect-fit product or delivering the highest-end service leads to profit growth anyway.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It's your persuasive pitch to potential investors, outlining your startup's objectives and profitability strategy. That way you can focus on what's important and not worry about whether or not your marketing strategy or product development process makes sense. Thanks to Jason Williams, Automate Your Life ! #7-

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 3:49] How would you define the difference between a startup and somebody starting a business? [5:04]

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Build a product, get it into the real world, measure customers’ reactions and behaviors, learn from this, and use what you’ve learned to build something better. Waterfall Development. Here’s how.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

Founders who constantly give in to changes will get more until the startup breaks. Make sure everyone knows that changes after this point will have personal consequences, and will delay the product and increase the cost. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Customers enjoy online shopping; their demands create enormous opportunities for eCommerce company’s growth. Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? Working hours.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

Today I want to go into territory less obvious because let’s face it, hiring the best people and creating conditions where they can succeed is the kind of startup advice that is squarely in the “stating the obvious” category. Lastly, a foundational skill of great product managers is GSD.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2020

90% of all registered startups fail to survive the first year. The truth is, to survive in a startup jungle, you need to prepare yourself for a rollercoaster of emotions. But we need to ask ourselves what makes a difference between a successful and failed startup? The product needs to fit market demands.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

One of the challenges of startup businesses has to do with getting people to trust you. And to be successful in doing business, you must always have a quality product. But before bringing this out to the general public, you have to pass through the challenge of developing this product first. Reverse/re-arrange (e.g.,

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. For several different versions of the on-demand economy in other parts of the world, the term itself may be alien, its implications unknown. Grab In Focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2022

Both risks and opportunities in this area can arise from many aspects of your startup, before and after product development. All entrepreneurs should face the risk of being one of their own customers, by using their own products and standing in their own customer service lines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2010

A few years ago I was intimately involved with a promising startup that ultimately failed, in my opinion due to a clear case of Founder’s Syndrome. There were product development problems, pricing problems, and early customers who demanded more features and delayed contractual payments. It could save your startup!

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Before devoting resources to building a full version, consider launching an MVP (minimal viable product) first. Learn more about validating your business idea and product concept here. In this very case, a mobile app offers more interactive, real-time experience and caters better to the on-demand on-the-go needs of a savvy event goer.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the startup world, opportunities are fleeting, and obstacles are ubiquitous. Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Regarding extended reality, gaming is a key sector for popular jobs that do not demand advanced degrees but do require a desire for online gaming. For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Growth in business is always the objective but is your business primed and ready for a sudden influx of new order, higher service demand, new competition, and the myriad of challenges (and pains) of the rise? Here are but a few you and the business could stumble upon: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Capturing and analyzing data enables companies to get insights that benefit their companies in cost-saving, relevant marketing, product development, etc. With appropriate data analytics, a business can predict and comprehend the market, competition, customer demands, etc.

Technical Review 151

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” According to Geoff Hedges, the founder of the CAD-focused blog creo.ptc.com, concept design is “a specific phase of the design process, within the product development process.” Hedges calls concept design as the initial big picture of your product. Contact us now!

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s been just over a year since the inaugural Startup Lessons Learned conference , and it’s time to do it again. The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. Kent Beck himself helped us explain that “quality work” means something different when we’re facing the extreme uncertainty of a startup.

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