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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

As with sales, these core reasons need to be compelling to candidates, while being as unique to you (competitive differentiation) as possible. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Hiring great team mates is the only way to ensure that you rest easy when delegating responsibilities.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

Steve Blank

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs. They want newer things.

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Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference

Software By Rob

Geoffrey Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm and four other books, Geoffrey Moore has been thinking about high-tech product development longer than most of have been doing anything on a computer. Geoffrey also talked through the product adoption cycle, but this was less applicable to the products I deal with as a Micropreneur.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

First, whatever your idea is, rest assured its been thought of before. While we love getting ideas from our team and have seen some stellar product development and user experience decisions generate from brainstorming and having an open office environment, we try not to let everything come to a vote.

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How to Model Your Marketing Against the Product Lifecycle

ConversionXL

However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. By now, you’ve reached peak market saturation and consumers are aware of the product.

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Marketing Objectives for the Product Lifecycle Growth Stage

ConversionXL

People had a terrible experience using their product. After turning their attention toward feedback and testing, letting the voice of their customers fuel their content strategy and product development, they took off. To establish why your brand is better than the rest, champion your voice of customer. The result?

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