Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Will these third parties produce something people will watch? But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2020

My investments have always been geographically distributed across the US and I spent the majority of my time between Monday and Friday on the road. In the past few years, there have been several high profile examples of scaled companies that have a completely distributed workforce. For many years, this was a function of travel.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. What are the most common skills in each category?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Marketing should start before product development. Usually it pays to work in an industry for a while, before you try to fix it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A mixture of globalization, improvements in technology, and cost advantages of telecommuting has created the perfect conditions for building and directing distributed teams. But with distributed teams, these conditions are electronic, which means setting expectations and following up is even more important.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. Why Enterprise is the Driver of Economic Development. Entrepreneurs Create and Distribute Wealth. Entrepreneurship Spreads Economic Power.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2020

Invest in building an official website with the help of an expert web developer. An online PR distribution service is beneficial for startups because the process of sending press releases is automated, saving the organization time, effort, and money. Benefits Of Press Releases For Startup Businesses. Improve Your Bottomline.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. This weeks topic was distribution channels ; how your product gets from your company to your potential customer segments. Diagnostics. Week 3 Todd Morrill Instructor .

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. Validation of product.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The new technologies and capabilities that will be central to military advantage in the future – artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous systems, distributed networking, advanced manufacturing, and commercial space, etc. Disruptive Technology. We don’t know what the world is going to look like.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Marketing should start before product development. Usually it pays to work in an industry for a while, before you try to fix it.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

First, the ease at which developers can get started working with AI models is starting to lead to a Cambrian explosion of products and applications that leverage this technology. Is there a means of efficient distribution amidst the noise? Will new, native distribution channels emerge? There are two reasons for this.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

This is why I like to include customers in product development and testing. It may be distribution, advertising, cost, or other reasons. Q: How important is it to understand what motivates the consumer? Richard Burry: To me the consumer is the most important part of the business. You must sell the most product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

After a brief passage through the academic world where he researched simulation of distributed systems, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and cofounded Woorank as the CTO. By grabbing millions of data points every day, he developed a passion for automating, scaling and distributing services at scale.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The growth of parcel services has been boosted due to – Free trade agreements (FTAs) signed between various countries and the development of special economic zones (SEZ) in different economies. Developing the prototype of the Uber-like app for courier delivery consisting of the basic functionalities. .

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Rembrandt Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Before you publish or distribute any type of messaging, your content needs to have three things: A goal. Also, develop creative ways to promote your business and stand out from the competition. Then, you can change or discard the things that aren’t working and expand on the things that do. What’s that? No problem!

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2019

In this article, we will talk about all-star software development teams and some ways to build one. Hiring a unicorn like that may involve pushing your search outside your region like hiring Ukrainian developers. Co-located remote teams vs. distributed team. An all-star team is known as a group of high-performing people.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Onboarding a new remote developer is arguably one of the most important things you can add to your core competencies if you want to assure your new hires’ success. Checkpoints to evaluate onboarding success have not been established in advance, and the developer doesn’t know what’s going to under evaluation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A good grammar checker can easily replace several proofreaders and editors and save you hundreds of dollars or euros when you are developing your website texts or your first marketing campaigns. While most of these problems can be addressed through a well-designed system, you need to develop it right from the start. Scaling Up.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. We’re all familiar with Product Development, and thanks to the amazing Steve Blank and Eric Ries , Customer Development has become the mantra for so many startups. In a nutshell, Product Development is about building something.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 27, 2017

Now let’s see realistic part of developing a game on mobile.It But through communicating well between team members we were able to evenly distribute tasks among ourselves that best suited our strengths. Moises Technical Developments The most exciting part of last week, we saw the game on a phone. Hence, it scares us a little.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2022

Website Development . You also need to learn from those data and develop strategies. Modern enterprises use CMS for their content distribution. Through the various tools on the market, there is a vast range of available choices. So, you have to find what suits your business the best. Content Management.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Speaking of sales and business development, during the first few years, it was hard to convince businesses to create remote jobs. were unemployed in other parts of the word and deserved to be given a chance to learn and develop their skills with a fast-growing well-funded startup based out of Silicon Valley for example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Leveraged distribution channels.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

There is the difficulty of developing a new product, creating efficient systems for making it, sourcing the raw inputs, and training workers. Operating a distribution business can be that type of solution. Once you have some ideas of who you want to work with, you’ll begin to see the value in operating a distribution business.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

As pre-seed investors in the world of gaming (both studios and infrastructure) at Remagine Ventures, we stay up to date on the trends and new developments in the world of gaming. In order for gaming companies to create, distribute and monetise their content, they require solid tools and infrastructure. Time Magazine cover, July 2022.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

In light of the state of the economy as it is currently functioning, he places an emphasis on developing marketing strategies that are efficient with regard to cost. The content can be personalized and edited through the user-friendly dashboard before distribution.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 21, 2020

In fact, he started his own consultancy, Entiende Bitcoin , to help Bitcoin companies develop and distribute products in emerging markets. He’s super passionate about many aspects of tech, from solar to crypto/blockchain and machine learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It provided an industry-leading graphic development interface, but was not so strong on modeling and simulation. As a result, we shared in capturing a new high-end market, without major new marketing or development. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. The auto industry learned this a long time ago.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. They develop state-of-the-art solutions to help companies get used to remote working. In distributed teams, employee engagement is critical. Image Credit: pixaby. Remote startups have a great ideology. Eloops – Keeping Employees Engaged.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation. Looking for startups solving practical use cases that go beyond gaming.

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