David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. Is the service scaleable? Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

This waterfall methodology follows a few consecutive steps, including analysis, designing, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. As its official website suggests, it is a better way of building products. It is a lightweight framework, easy to understand but difficult to master.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Kathleen Sebelius is a politician, not a product designer. I’m sure many people building this application did know — sadly, political matters trumped a consumer perspective, good design principles, and creative problem solving. Consumers drive design. observation is a key idea of design thinking , see IDEO ).

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

Let me use the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for product development to explain why. Reams have been written about the JTBD framework. I will give you a high-level summary here, but if you are building products then I recommend spending some time with Google to find out a bit more. An example from Photobox.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2013

While marketers go gaga over social technologies and their impact on digital commerce, it is often our physical perceptions of a product which influence buying decisions. The challenge, however, is this: How can we design our products, advertisements and experiences such that they push the right sensory buttons in our consumers?

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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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Besides the general focus on customer and product development, an entrepreneur should foresee the next moves that will serve to guide him on the right path. With improving awareness of our services within the Texas market, we plan to be able to expand our team and establish the framework for our roots in DFW.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be.

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Product Development Developer Silicon Valley Product 143

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Werdelin equates building a successful product to building a nightclub. 1) Twitter.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

A business owner may develop these skills via practical business operations; however, it is a rather risky approach. An MBA is designed to cultivate soft and hard skills that ultimately help you and your business grow. So what is the safest solution? Pursuing an MBA is the solution.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 21, 2014

Frameworks like CPS are essential. CPS is a time-tested framework. CPS is broad enough and flexible enough to incorporate Design Thinking tools and even applied improvisation games. CPS and FEI training provide innovation teams with a common language and framework to solve problems. Stage-gate is in the textbooks.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

Instead, we need to streamline and accelerate our processes by borrowing techniques from the world of lean and agile product development. These frameworks show us how to start working from a small amount of information, learn quickly, and iterate often.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Have an account? Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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SVPG

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

A variation of this is when the organization has significant outsourcing of the designers or engineers that are on the teams. Several product development processes out there, especially those that claim to be designed for “the enterprise," are predicated on the mercenary model. And it leads to epic waste.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

When consumers make purchasing decisions, the choice is more driven by how they feel about your brand than what they know about your product. Bellroy has designed a range of slimline wallets to solve this challenge. They use product marketing techniques to target and educate their customers. Image Source.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

.&# Which seems to offer an understanding of “customer development&# that’s quite different the Four Steps to the Epiphany approach. The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

More important, the iteration framework gave us something like a meta-process: we could try new ideas about how to manage development process and measure them against historical data to see what could further optimize the process. At 65 mph, it''s like having a large animal sitting on your chest.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2015

Born out of Intel and then later fully actualized at Google with the help of John Doerr, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) have ushered in a new goal-setting framework that empowers every size business — but especially new ventures — to set out and stay on the right path to drive organizational success. Annual goals aren’t good enough.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Starting on the evening of December 11 and running through December 13—for VIP pass holders only—we’re partnering with UP Global’s Startup Weekend to offer a two-day Lean Startup immersion program , specially designed to teach you how to put Lean Startup theory directly into practice.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many have fine-tuned frameworks with a high level of sophistication. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. Prototyping — including: design, graphic arts, and concept writing are skills that go beyond engineering. New ideas need to integrate product development with marketing and sales as well.

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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 ). For example, a web designer.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Use Design Thinking 2.0 Next, it’s time to embark on a more detailed product development process so you can document their exact features and interfaces with enough detail to implement them. Or start with a specific new product that needs innovation and apply the principles of Design Thinking 2.0

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. The Growth Manager is the catcher and champion for product requests from outside the growth team.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. The Growth Manager is the catcher and champion for product requests from outside the growth team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Youll notice a pattern: most of the key features that enabled PHPs success are considered among its defects by experts in language design. Ironically, as PHP has grown up, its designers have been busy "fixing" these shortcomings. PHP can do what no other language or framework can (albeit django). and Rails as a web framework.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”).

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Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Apart from basic usability fixes, aligning your messaging and design with your users’ motivations is a good bet. Empathic design is one such technique, an underutilized facet of qualitative research. What is Empathic Design? What you’re looking for are the implicit reasons people use your product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. Its mission —“to be Earth’s most customer-centric company”—depends on understanding and resolving online shoppers’ pain points, whether through web design tweaks or free-and-fast delivery. Samsung found that television owners saw their sets as furniture and, therefore, valued sleek design.)

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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.

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