YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2013

There would be numerous taxes and document-related expenditures that will have to be dealt with for the business to start operating legally. Website hosting, internet access and other IT products will be a part of the technological costs of starting a new business. Product Development and Marketing.

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Cost Startup Web Development Finance 183

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

Every business takes time to scale and penetrate a market due to organizational growth, hiring, training, brand building and customer adoption. Entrepreneurs who under-estimate cash requirements or focus on product development while someone else pays the bills are doomed to fail over and over again. Hire slow and fire fast.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Forecast Angel Investor 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Perhaps you don’t have the budget to hire an assistant, or you’re simply reluctant to give up control of even the most mundane jobs. Whether they follow through on that knowledge, however, is a different story. Accountant.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Management Arizona Software Review 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. Reducing product turn time. Extending the runway. The Lean Start-Up Environment.

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Product Development Lean Developer Product 153

The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Successful collaboration between a company’s business development and product development requires mutual understanding and purpose. Create a P/C/S Document. These documents will help both teams better understand each topic and will help with the prioritization process. Hire T-Shaped People.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Development Team Review Developer Agile 129

Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

A forecast is documentation that shows potential investors and lenders what they need to know about your business, but also that you are competent, knowledgeable about your business and its strengths and weaknesses, and a reasonably safe investment. Communication (telephone, internet). Variable expenses. Expense pitfalls.

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Forecast Early Stage Software Review Technical Review 77

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. Hiring The Right Candidate. Report: Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: Be Proactive or Become Social Media Help Desk View more documents from Jeremiah Owyang.

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Social Media Media Programming Viral 134

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

Forecast 60

Forecast Software Review Lean Finance 60

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

This was my time at a Wall Street firm that had hired me after I applied for their Junior Stockbroker position, a little while after I graduated from college. To make it official, we used a Y Combinator post-SAFE document with a pro-rata side letter to document it and put it into the company’s minute book. it was now clickable!

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Delaware SEC New York City New York 62

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

Put the results of your trust summit in writing and ask all employees to sign this document. Creating an official ‘standards of behavior’ document helps crystallize the attitude you’re hoping to cultivate. Creating the document shows that your organization is willing to go beyond mere lip service.

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Employee Balance Sheet Leadership Chicago 189

YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

Put the results of your trust summit in writing and ask all employees to sign this document. Creating an official ‘standards of behavior’ document helps crystallize the attitude you’re hoping to cultivate. Creating the document shows that your organization is willing to go beyond mere lip service.

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Employee Leadership Balance Sheet Chicago 160

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Regardless, this document is a viable alternative to creating decks at the seed stage, and we wanted to deconstruct what that might look like below. Team: Hires, fires, departures, responsibility changes, major promotions, and your org chart. At this point, the document starts to wrap up.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Metrics Burn Rate 331

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization.

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The business plan document itself isn’t what’s important to investors. A business plan provides the structure for thinking through these things and documents your answers so you’re prepared for the inevitable questions investors will ask about your business. If you have gaps and still need to hire key employees, that’s OK.

Business Plan 138

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Exit Strategy 138

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. Not really.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. For example, some startup sales execs believe hiring the core sales team is a key objective. Here’s what the product development diagram looks like from a sales perspective.

Customer Development 215

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 215

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Every partner and employee can kill your success potential in a heartbeat, so don’t take shortcuts on your hiring and training practices. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

Angel Investor 227

Angel Investor Venture Capital Partner Networking 227

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Manage human resources.

Startup 255

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Though most founders would agree culture is important in an organization’s success, it often takes a back seat to product development and generating a profit in the early stages of an organization’s life. The founder and first hires have overcome obstacles and understand the behaviors that prove to lead to success.

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Cofounder Hiring Leadership Employee 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The team hired only the best and the brightest. But according to the theory, this should have been covered by the various specs and documentation we were rigorous about producing. They either had to hire a developer onto the art team itself (unthinkable) or learn those development skills themselves (which was, to be fair, really hard).

Technical Review 164

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Software Review 164

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Trust your gut, and ignore naysayers. Take pride in your ability to get things done yourself. It’s a big change.

Social Network 120

Social Network Demand Valuation Acquisition 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Every partner and employee can kill your success potential in a heartbeat, so don’t take shortcuts on your hiring and training practices. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

Product 228

Product Angel Investor Venture Capital Partner 228

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. How about documentation that nobody reads? the data on a regular basis.

San Francisco 142

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 142

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. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Manage human resources.

Startup 239

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

These goals can be used to motivate your team and even help in the hiring process as you get up and running. Developing a long-range business plan is really just an extension of your regular business planning process. Will you introduce new products and services? Use your business plan to document your strategy for growth.

Business Plan 83

Business Plan Lean Forecast Exit Strategy 83

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

Agile 76

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

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.

Silicon Valley 260

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

At IMVU, we would occasionally hire someone from a more traditional organization who had a hard time letting go of their “best practices&# and habits. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately. Besides training, how does documentation/Help keep up?

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Gust

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Every partner and employee can kill your success potential in a heartbeat, so don’t take shortcuts on your hiring and training practices. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

Angel Investor 143

Angel Investor Venture Capital Partner Networking 143

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Slides are below: The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. Edit: I finally got YouTube upload working, which has better embedding options than MobileMe. If you want to see the original video, use the link above.

Lean 115

Lean Video San Francisco Continuous Deployment 115

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This applies whether the focus is on product development, strategy, hiring, or positioning in the market. It doesn’t have to be 80 pages long, nor does it have to include 10 years of projected revenues and earnings; many great companies articulate their strategic approach in a one-page document or a 5-slide presentation.

Small Business 95

Small Business Startup Leadership Vertical 95

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

We owe a lot to this seminal document. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Heres an excerpt: In a previous article, we called Toyota’s product development system the “second Toyota paradox.&# it is very helpful for me.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

By the time he was done, he had launched a new Agile Manifesto: Team vision and discipline over individuals and interactions (or processes and tools) Validated learning over working software (or comprehensive documentation) Customer discovery over customer collaboration (or contract negotiation) Initiating change over responding to change (or following (..)

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 133

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. I documented the lesson plans etc on [link] March 4, 2009 5:25 AM Eric said. I offered a programming class at the local school and. only two kids took it up!

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143