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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part Two)

OnlyOnce

In this article, I’ll talk about the process we’re using in our product management-and-development teams to stay innovative. As we grew bigger, we decided to formalize our process for bringing new products to market. The still-evolving process we developed has four stages: Stage 1: Confirm Need. The Process.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

Debate Point: Telling People What You’re Doing In the beginning there are three basic things every startup needs: experts to give you input on your product as you’re building it, users to help you beta test your product in a real-life setting, customers who will give you real money for what you’re building and take real risk in doing so.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

You see, coming from a UX background where the focus is on giving people a great product experience, I tended to look at the marketing side of business as something reserved to slick types – characters often played so well by George Clooney. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. It cost us exactly $0.

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