Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit."

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Thanks to Kevin Burke, Extension PR ! #7- COVID-19 saw several changes, particularly in the area of telephonic development. So, we can expect that businesses and workplaces will keep on adjusting and readjusting their operations to accommodate the mandates and protocols that their respective governments will impose.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Although every organization faces some uncertainty in developing new stuff, the conditions are not always extreme. For example, when your company adds ano ther blade to its disposal razors , the product’s technical development, marketing and sales will follow relatively predictable paths.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2015

For most startups, core functions are product design, product development, marketing, sales, PR, and customer service. The post Should you outsource your financial operations? But generally speaking, my advice to startups is that you should never outsource activities that are core to your business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

You just can’t half-heartedly paste a few new tactics on top of your current operations and expect advocates to start singing your praises. It must cross boundaries, working cooperatively with other divisions in your business such as sales, marketing, social media, PR, product development, and the like.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

by Dawn Parzych, Developer Advocate for LaunchDarkly. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg uttered the phrase “move fast and break things,” it has become the motto of many development teams. Companies wanting to be the next unicorn decided this must be the way to operate. Test code in production without exposing it to all users.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2018

Everything flows from it, including strategy, operations, staffing, team building, product development, branding and PR. It’s the first question a potential investor will ask you about and the first thing a consumer will want to know before buying your product. A USP is the True North of any successful venture.

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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. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth. So what makes a good Growth Manager?

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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. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth. So what makes a good Growth Manager?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

So, if you’re anything like me, your first startup will need to be self-funded and operated with a very lean budget. After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Every conversation about fund raising should start with what your current operational needs are and the stage of your business. they can develop a product advantage by building with 10 developers what you have 3 people dedicated towards. They get the PR bump. They evolve the product faster. .&#

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You’ll learn about the different strategies available and the impact they’ll have on the future of your product. Before introduction comes development. These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. But its not very open, and not very programmable, unless you have an expensive Mac and an approved developer license.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Fortunately, developers and tech companies are creating solutions that help businesses reduce operating expenses while simplifying their processes. Users can access web and video conferencing, secure data networks, call forwarding, voicemail, and caller ID all in a bundled package that comes in under operating budget.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

I received an email from the PR contact for the company that mentioned the BP oil spill in the Gulf and the process of idea collection on the web they were undertaking. The four products that Accepts offers as part of their innovation suite are: Ideas: A classic ideation offering, non-employees can submit and vote on ideas.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 20, 2013

Especially legal, policy and pr – we wanted them to understand the magic of YouTube. Avoid Locality Bias in Product Development. You’re part of Google, there’s corporate pressure (and perceived quick wins) to work with other Google products. price tag.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

Introduction to Operations Management. As you plan your business, you’ll also want to plan an operational strategy. You’ll learn how to be efficient, track inventory, and manage the quality of your product or service with this online course from Wharton. Product development. Is your product ready for the big time?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Heres a representative view from an actual Amazon customer review : We all know how to operate our own entertainment center, but what happens when you have to explain it to your babysitter, mother-in-law, or your wife? In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Furthermore, when faced with adversity only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. Typically, these hires fall into 2 buckets: product development and sales. On that note, it is important for high-tech companies to keep tech development inhouse.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

When it comes to subscription product pricing, you’re not just guessing…are you? A while ago, an HBR study famously claimed that a 1% improvement in price would increase operating profit by 11%, making it the most effective thing you can tweak for increased business performance. Pricing is important. Brand Price Trade-off.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. This is especially important across functional lines.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Don’t skip this post because you’re not a Rails developer. Many Rails developers have not reacted to this news with the alacrity they should have. (See Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Posted on January 31, 2013.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Check) Stage 2: Develop App. (in million in venture financing. Stage 1: Idea.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The only thing that matters is how good your product is. At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. Getting all 3 parts of our product right is everything. All the rest is noise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. Companies want the coverage, but they don’t actually want to reveal anything useful about their operations. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.) Vanity metrics are generally bigger.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door. I don’t know any developers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. Every product marketer thought they should help define the product feature set, etc. In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

As successful as Toyota has been, one of its operating pillars is definitely continuous process improvement, also known as kaizen. The operating process also requests all team members to be devoted to the company on 100%. Still, you can do it by adapting the principles to your industry, size and stage of development.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

Prior to starting Ozmo both Ming and I worked in a design house creating new and better products. Throughout my five years of experience in product development, I realized that most of product launch failure could have been avoided by getting the product right earlier on, or understanding the limit of the maker.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Twenty years from now, operating systems might also work as a good metaphor. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

At a certain point in IMVU’s development, we faced a difficult choice. It took hundreds of years for newspapers to learn to behave as worthy holders of this public trust and cover the news without fear or favour, and create a firewall between news and views and the ad-sales side of the operation. I'd be foolish to believe so.

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