Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Talk about waste.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 6, 2004
Ephraim Shwartz of Infoworld has a great piece on offshoring and implications for IT shops in the US. I couldn’t agree with him more that while there are cost benefits there are also other factors to consider when moving development offsite. The post Impact of Outsourcing/Offshoring on IT appeared first on BeyondVC.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 14, 2013
but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. One OSRD project – the Manhattan Project which led to the development of the atomic bomb – was so secret and important that it was spun off as a separate program. This approach was successful when U.S. In lieu of the U.S.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house. Who is valuing the worth of development?
Software By Rob
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. In this scenario, $5k or $10k goes a long way towards bringing a product to fruition. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them. Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves.
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. This would mean we could hire two more engineers to grow the features of the tool, as well as a designer to focus on the UX/UI.
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