Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Here are some recommendations on how to keep the rate low, and help your startup to prosper at the same time: Measure it and manage it. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Here are some principles on how to do that, and help your startup to prosper and live another day: Measure it and manage it. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

When you hire people in functional roles they want to show that they’re achieving results and results are easiest to measure by tasks accomplished. But many CEO’s and management teams fail to set clear guidelines on what the company objectives are and make sure that everybody is driving toward the same goal.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. Fortunately none of our employees lost their lives and the second office 300 miles away in Manila continued operating as normal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Frustration is mounting.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Meanwhile, Wendy’s poured marketing and operational resources to deliver on their “Hot and Juicy” promise and carved out a niche for customers who wanted fresh, larger burgers with customized condiments. However, you must assess the feasibility of actually delivering your visionary, flank-exposing innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Here are some principles on how to do that, and help your startup to prosper and live another day: Measure it and manage it. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. Today, I want to talk about the reasons smaller batches are better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. And I really wanted to get into management consulting field. We rode the re-engineering process, re-engineering craze in the 1990s, but we did it from a change management perspective.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Facebook was a new way to manage social interaction, Google was a new way to search, Amazon was a new way to purchase, both Twitter and Blogger were new ways to communicate, and Digg was a new way to determine the relevance of news. Hiring developers has a bunch of new factors to throw into the mix.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Id like to talk about a technique Ive used to help manage this growth without slowing down. This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. What is customer development?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2019

Harris is passionate about leading teams, high- performance coaching, and inspiring more people to adopt the servant leader mindset. A 20-year veteran of the global pharmaceutical industry, he now resides in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he is General Manager of Allergan PLC. The secret is knowing how to hire to create it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

When creating a new market, expect to spend as long as two years before you manage to get traction with early customers, but enjoy the utter lack of competition. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Tom Peters called the Management By Walking Around - MBWA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. There is a high probability that the person you’re hiring will leave you within 18 months. I learned how to better run a product management process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. This second objective plays no small part in allowing you to hire the best. Hiring decisions are among the most difficult, and the most critical.

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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. Managing timelines instead of queues. Inflexibility.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. Unfortunately in many cases, the choice to hire a CTO is the worst choice a CEO or management team could make.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you are starting new, or going to touch the code on your website for any reason, please, in the name of Thor, Superman and Dilbert, use a tag management solution. Google Tag Manager is one such solution. Here's the report for operating system. It is free. So what else is going on? The stuff you see above. Free or paid.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. American VCs are critical.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.)

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