YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

It seems like almost all technology goes to market with a “beta” tag attached. When my company moves to public beta testing, we’ve already spent a full year in “true beta” internally so we can provide the general public with a higher-quality version of our technology. Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

Here are the scrum components: Roles: Team, Product owner, Scrum Master and Team. Events: Sprint planning meeting, Release planning, Daily scrum meeting, Review meeting and Sprint retrospective. Design and execution is innovative and experimental. Company wants to improve existing T-shirt: design and colour.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Pop-up technology has become more subtle, with the lightbox pop-up becoming the new standard (and also able to bypass pop-up blockers). If the pop-up displays an on-target offer and is presented infrequently and has a professional design, I consider them a viable option with a potentially very positive impact on your email list growth.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA. Haifa is also home to.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

In our previous post we posited that Scalable Startups are designed to become large companies. The good news is this team found a business model, product/market fit and a repeatable sales model. By now, the board has a good sense of the skill set of the CEO and executive team as entrepreneurs. What’s Next.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Three years ago I began the search for a technology setup to market and deliver my first information product online. Although I made a decision and eventually launched my product, I would continue to change systems as I ran up against problems with the technology. Enter Kajabi – Is It The Answer?

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Some three decades ago, IBM was years away from being able to prototype speech-to-text technology because the hardware available those days was significantly underpowered for the task. IBM didn’t actually have that technology. Example 1: The IBM Speech-to-Text Pretotype. What users thought was happening.). Another success.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 26, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur. Stage 2: Develop Concept.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I spent an entire hour watching the sales video for a new product you probably have heard of, it’s called… Kajabi You can watch the video for yourself right here – What Is Kajabi? – and then sign up for a 14 day trial (the trial option may be over depending when you read this blog post). This can reduce refunds.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Non-Technology Driven Startups The first question to ask is, is your startup idea technology driven? They were all completely new technologies or applications of technologies. Thanks to years of internet progress there are existing technologies that virtually anyone can piggy back off.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In This number is heavily dependant on the productivity of your sales teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. 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. Every day counts, every minute counts.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Cody, the VP of Sales wants this lead form on the front page. The marketing team wants this video. The web designer’s like, “What do I do?” It really is about in seconds, conveying that through text and design. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent. I’m going to look.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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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. From there you can also make annotations and report design errors on any browser. It’s not cheap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Of course, the sales folks had new features as their #1 priority. We ended up rethinking our entire product development process, top to bottom, start to finish. But the results were excellent - customer satisfaction, sales, profits, quality, attitudes all improved dramatically. Top managements #1 was usually ROI.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Just as having a chatbot or launching a podcast isn’t going to triple your sales, no-code tools aren’t going to transform the way you do business overnight. Need to mockup a sales page for your copy? But at least you have a foundation to share with your design or development team. You can use Carrd and Convertkit.

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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. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. Alcides Fonseca.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host Will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Be especially careful with the “sales&# guy here. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. Read some fun reviews of this site. There are bounds to rationality.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. 15 minutes.

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