Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They recorded many of their sessions on video. They taped people using existing products. But even with this in mind we churned out products that were too complex or didn’t meet customer expectations. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development. But they went one step further.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 9, 2011

After reading Crush It , by Gary Vaynerchuk , I was convinced that the way to grow my website was to release videos almost every weekday (three to five times a week). Each video would teach one concept in biology. DVDs generally have a higher perceived value than digital downloads. It has been a huge undertaking.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

The MVP concept, popularized by Eric Rice of Lean Startup , assumes that before going all in and pouring significant sums into product development, you test the grounds with a “beta” version of your product. Video plays. purchase, ad click, and so on). Specifically, those are: Menu selections. Button clicks.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening. Thanks to Richard Mews, Sell With Richard ! #14- 14- The Farmstand. Photo Credit: Amrita Saigal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

(tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Im working on a post that links to those videos too. Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile product development? Is there anywhere I can download the presentation?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! ” – crowdspring.co/1ls0X06.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

We started making changes to the product: making it easier to pay, then making it more obvious that you should pay, then making it easier to download, get started, and so on. We certainly didnt want to believe that our product was fundamentally flawed - we preferred to think it was a mechanical, usability, or technical problem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

More About Clare Price: Download a free chapter of her new book. Get a copy of the book on Amazon — Smart Marketing Execution: How To Accelerate Profitability, Performance, And Productivity. Not just jumping into the tried and true, let's go do social media, let's go do Facebook ads, let's go do you know, video advertising or whatever.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 27, 2010 Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A video conference system like Polycom is crucial not only for project meetings but also for sales and product development meetings. If you’re interested to see what this application is truly capable of, you can download its free 30-day trial version.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Throw in a few YouTube videos and a Twitter account, and you’re golden — or so we are led to believe. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Have an account?

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 11comments: Peter Severin said. Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

This development philosophy created a culture around rapid prototyping of features, followed by testing them against large numbers of actual customers. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. If a feature worked, wed keep it. If it didnt, wed trash it. But it worked. We made it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

I think I’ve now mastered how to make images clickable so in the future you *should* always be able to click on the TWiVC image above and go directly to the video. But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Our guest this week was Scott Painter. It’s awesome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

It just answered this question: for any given time range, for the 100% of people who registered in that period, what percentage of them downloaded? That simple funnel analysis became our scorecard, and helped us refine our product with constant customer input. chatted once? chatted five times? bought something? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I usually use a "funnel report" that looks like this: Control Hypothesis A Hypothesis B Registered 1000 (100%) 1000 (100%) 500 (100%) Downloaded 650 (65%) 750 (75%) 200 (40%) Chatted 350 (35%) 350 (35%) 100 (20%) Purchased 100 (10%) 100 (10%) 25 (5%) In this case, you could run the report for any time period. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I downloaded and tried all four of them (because I had time to kill) - and Im still not sure which one was the best. As with services like Yelp, reviewers can tend to be the subset of people who were disappointed by the product, not those who liked it or even loved it. Do most people know what kind of app they want? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Its enourmously helpful when you need to generate new ideas about what to do, or when you face a product problem you dont know how to solve. For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. 2) Watched O'Reilly video which lead me here.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. Why don’t users come back to the application after the initial download? Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. Why don’t users come back to the application after the initial download? Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Using UserTesting.com, which allows you to watch videos of real people using your site (or app), StubHub discovered that a link was causing major confusion. By adding UserTesting.com to the product development lifecycle, Evernote was able to increase user retention by 15% while also dramatically increasing user engagement numbers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Because the application is composed of many small plug-ins, coupled with the fact that we commit small code batches, the size of each software update can be downloaded quickly. Every time the user starts up the application, it checks for a new update, downloads and installs one if available. Expo SF (May.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 25, 2010

I felt a bit stagnant with what I was doing, so I decided that it was time to release a new product. This decision was made after listening to a podcast about product development and realizing that I really didn’t have a product. A few weeks ago, I decided to take on a new venture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. These were primitive open-ended video games created by the players themselves , using simple programming languages.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Look for some “ skunk works &# project where the product developers are actively seeking alternatives to their own engineering organization. These companies will look at innovative startups to help them gain market share from the incumbent. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I tried your compiler and it generted the XPI file but when I link to it and click the link it actually downloads the binary into my browser window instead of popping up the Firefox plugin window. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? 2comments: Matthew Quinlan said. BTW, its FF 3.07

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. Download our free eBook, “How to Pitch and Get Funded” here! Let me know in the comments.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, May 5, 2009 More video "what to do if customers dont like your (initial) product" plus full webcast First up is an interview with Mixergy, about lean startups and what to do if customers dont like your (initial) product. Labels: events , video 5comments: kent said. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Question 2: If your product has areas where people read and then different areas where people interact, are there ways to do metrics to determine where people spend their time? Could this be done on mouse focus, commenting amounts, answer percentages, download percentages, etc? Is that a success? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

This website offers a downloadable worksheet called a business model canvas that helps you think through your business idea. Product development. If you need a little help with your product development and getting it on store shelves, you can check out Edison Nation. Business Model Generation. Edison Nation.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2011

Every product is built in isolation and while the details of Apple's product development process are not that "open" either from what I've heard often engineers don't even have a full picture of the product they are building. The Steve Jobs Formula and Why It Works. Don't Be Secretive. Go Anti-Stealth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. In other words, what is the minimum viable product ? If our goal is just to create a blog or a YouTube video as a hobby, there’s no need for this kind of rigorous process. Is that a lot? Is that good? Expo SF (May.

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