View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Our product, a software development and testing tool, was amazingly innovative, worked great, and won a bunch of prestigious awards. Pretotyping evolved as a set of tools, techniques, and metrics to help you make sure that your idea is The (very elusive) Right It.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. Zoho has been offering SAAS (software as a service) since 1996 and boasts a huge slate of apps.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. These specs are handed to a designer, who builds layouts and mockups of all the salient points.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. In teams that follow the "pick two" agenda, which two has to be resolved via a power play. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. I couldnt see that we were managing to pick even one.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. What is customer development? Heres the catch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. So we tried to craft a strategy that would give us the product development leverage we needed to serve all customers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A/B Tasty is yet another testing tool designed for the masses, this one hailing from France. Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. ” Adobe Target is an enterprise testing tool that does a great job of leveraging a visitor based metric system.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

In this post we’ll cover the grand daddy of UCD (User Centric Design) methodologies: Lab Usability Testing. From the most uber perspective User Research is the science of observing and monitoring how we interact with everyday things such as websites or software or hardware, and then drawing conclusions about how to improve those things.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. Now Adriana has an epiphany?:

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It's not necessarily designed to give you insight as a business owner. More About Marcel Petitpas: His business — Parakeeto. His podcast — The Agency Profit Podcast. More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant. These are two other Extreme Programming practices that are explicitly designed to counteract the problems inherent in this situation.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Again, there’s nothing wrong about that if that’s what you want to do.

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