Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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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

MAY 18, 2017

However, when it comes to MLM product development, marketing ideas and compensation plan strategy, being a creative copycat could be a legal and ethical shortcut to achieving your business goals for your new MLM, party plan or direct selling company. The same goes for new MLM product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking. No more, no less.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Geoffrey Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm and four other books, Geoffrey Moore has been thinking about high-tech product development longer than most of have been doing anything on a computer. Simplicity is mostly a way to avoid looking like you’re releasing a product that lacks features. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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www.tangosource.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Take steps towards product market fit, such as getting signed Letters of Intent (LOIs) which show that your product will have revenue on day 1. As a software developer turned business developer, Â Eric has experience in product development, business development, project management, and user centered design.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

No matter what a business owner needs an app for — accounting, communication, brainstorming, compliance, financial transactions, employee evaluations, advertising & promotions, collaborations, creativity, management, PR, customer relations, eCommerce, web design — there’s an app for that, and it’s probably free.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

There are a whole range of valid reasons why non-developers would want to dictate the production release schedule (Seasonal/timing issues, marketing, fulfillment concerns, documentation/training, revenue controls, legal/regulatory. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. And I can even imagine cases where it might burn more cash than a traditional startup. Lets see why.

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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. But how does authority convert to revenue?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Apple has a track record of creating lots of interesting enabling infrastructure, like Quicktime and Bonjour, which sometimes become key to their products and othertimes not. My guess is they have lots of people constantly working on interesting new tools for their designers to play with. Not even if its generating revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. If a feature worked, wed keep it.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Or should I launch products and a startup for each of them, focusing on only 1 product at a time? I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. do something else.

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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. But who needs revenue?)

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

So when I launched Bidsketch — a SaaS based proposal application for designers — offering a free plan was a no-brainer in my book. The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. So an example like Pluggio might be easier to relate to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Five Whys is designed to avoid these nebulous arguments. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Furthermore, I think most of what you are suggesting is applicable in companies/ industries that are not software development. Leave your thoughts in a comment.

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Software By Rob

MAY 21, 2010

(I’ve written an entire section on the “#1 goal of your website&# in my upcoming book, Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup ). The bottom line here is to take your launch seriously, as seriously as you’ve taken your product development. 3 Rob on 05.21.10 at 2:32 pm 1.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Building a product involves a large up-front time investment , and as a result is far riskier than becoming a consultant because you have to wait months to find out if your effort will generate revenue. In addition, growing a product to the point of providing substantial income is a long, arduous road. 15 Chris on 11.19.08

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). You don't need a self-designated 10x imbe. I mean a rockstar developer, you need a reliable, steady, bull-like technical partner. Even a beginner and mediocre developer can instill life into your mock-ups and bring the MVP live.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. Have an account? Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 1 – Developing Software. Financially, I believe I will be able to triple my revenue and income in 2017 and hit the six figure mark.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Still, theyre not really hitting it out of the park, because their product isnt growing new users as fast as theyd like, and they arent making any money from the current users. The goal of refactoring is to make it easier to do future development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Finally the board would fire the VP of sales.

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