Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2022

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm. Marketing and sales chasm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

The giants in electronic industries have updated themselves in almost every aspect, be it operations, supply chain, repair and maintenance, or consumer-based research and development. Similarly, new product development with advanced features and specs is based largely on new research, making the old surveys redundant and useless.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. Give those teams the resources they need to be successful — both in business development and tech personnel. Practice Agile Development.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Pre-seed tends to be about developing an MVP and generating early traction. Seed is about showing initial product market fit. Product/ tech/ insight – In many cases, pre-seed startups might already have a minimal viable product or at least some initial functionality to demonstrate potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x ————-. But customers didn’t agree.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. Check out these critical tips for developing an effective marketing strategy for startups in boring industries. Choose your Market Audience. Choose a Brand Name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Lists of project milestones and technical issues are created, but nothing happens on time, because follow-up on issues is missing. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

There are several elements that go into hardware product design that taps an unaddressed customer need, has the customer WOW factor, and succeeds long term in the market. Complicating the development of a useful product is the stringent safety and compliance approval testing that varies based on country and industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 17, 2010

You probably think of "tech support" as the bottom of the food chain. After all: Tech support deals with insane customers. Tech support answers the phone; a job even salesmen don't want. Tech support keeps angry customers at bay while having no power to effect change. Tech support is sales. Yep, that sounds lowly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to Atos, a European multinational information technology services and consulting business, $50 billion is invested in FinTech annually. It should include doing background checks and reviewing their security rules and practices. Secure Data Communication Another crucial procedure requires the use of encryption technologies.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Knowing this venture firms have come up with a canonical checklist of what they would like to see.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

I could have listened to her for hours as many of her lessons were ones I hadn’t heard before such as how she used online gaming when she was younger as a way of both teaching herself tech as well as learning to lead remote teams. Nanea Reeves has a storied career in senior leadership roles at technology companies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

We've also seen extensive use of technology and increased remote working. As a result, businesses in this field should leverage technology to provide interactive, easy-to-understand educational content that can help customers make health-related decisions and maintain healthy habits. Thanks to Erik Pham, Health Canal ! #2-

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Perhaps you’re an aspiring technology entrepreneur with a great idea of a product you believe would take off, but due to the lack of technical knowledge or funds have no way to turn your business idea into reality. With funds you could maybe even consider outsourcing the development.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Fortunately, technology offers a way to create your own assistant without dipping too far into your operating capital or hiring someone who doesn’t share your penchant for meticulous detail.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2017

Clearly, other small businesses are finding productive, efficient ways to grow, and you may be wondering what steps you can take to foster growth and development in your venture. Develop a Thoughtful Plan. One of the most crucial steps you can take to foster growth is to develop a thoughtful business and growth plan.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Due to their versatility and efficiency, AI-powered customer support bots have grown in popularity in recent years. Any question from a customer, from a simple request for information to a complex technical issue, can be answered by one of these bots. Q: Are there concerns about job security due to the adoption of AI bots?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving. In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries. However, the impact of this frugal technology has been immense.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

This most often happens due to impatience, which is not typically an entrepreneurial virtue. It also happens due to overreaction to some market surprise, a last-minute input, or a squeeze on cash. It was Tom Peters and Bob Waterman (“ In Search of Excellence ”) who first came up with the “ready-fire-aim” go-to-market strategy.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Huge Technical Visio n. Larry always had a 10-year technical vision that he could draw on the whiteboard or spin like a yarn. It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. This was cool!

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. In government agencies process versus product has gone further. And these forces are completely reshaping both commerce and defense.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself. The promotion signals the importance of product development for the company’s growth roadmap. CEO Perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

These include preparing and launching one’s business/product, overcoming resistance, using push/pull technology, and managing stakeholders (employees and bosses). Due to the breadth of its range (it is ambitious!), It begins with a core of likability and trustworthiness before covering other topics.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

To help us perform functional testing without mock objects, we maintain a seed database that reflects the database schema and contains the data definitions that we would expect in production. Besides unit testing, engineers also perform manual developer end-to-end testing. Technical design quality.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. Check out these critical tips for developing an effective marketing strategy for startups in boring industries. Choose your Market Audience. Choose a Brand Name.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

To be clear Airbnb posted a GAAP profit in Q3 2020 of over $200M which is impressive given travel remains materially depressed due to COVID. For reference, high-flying megacap tech stocks like Apple and Google have operating income margins >20% and Facebook and Microsoft have operating income margins >30%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2019

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm. Marketing and sales chasm.

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