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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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

" DHL ESS plays a fundamental role in the Freight Transformation program, aiming at harmonize the existing operational, financial and reporting processes and replace the legacy systems with state-of-the art standards operating procedures and technology. The system operates in France, and from the beginning of 2020, also in Turkey.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

Businesses have a lot to think about when they have a new product idea and one missed step in the product development lifecycle can significantly impact business success. I recommend finding a guide to help you in the early stages of your design while you are making important feature and part and product construction decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

" DHL ESS plays a fundamental role in the Freight Transformation program, aiming at harmonize the existing operational, financial and reporting processes and replace the legacy systems with state-of-the art standards operating procedures and technology. The system operates in France, and from the beginning of 2020, also in Turkey.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Startup founders counting the days until break-even or actively seeking outside capital must focus on streamlining their development cycles. Focus on Your Minimum Viable Product.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. Hiring for tech jobs in Vancouver is all done online.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

These tests were assembly language programs that tested for correct CPU operation, and management had budgeted 6-8 weeks to develop a particularly complex set of tests. I developed them in 3 days, by writing a C program to automatically generate the range of tests.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

#4- Investments in digitalization will grow Photo Credit: Sean Stevens Even though small businesses have come a long way in adopting digitalization and tech solutions, 57% of small business owners say they still need to update their IT infrastructure to make their operations run more smoothly. Thanks to Steve Rose, MoneyTransfers ! #11-

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. We did a quick overview of the product. That earned us the right to ask questions of fact about their department’s mission, goals, operations, volumes, tools, methods, and success metrics.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

You don’t have a clue about what the purpose of marketing is because all you are doing is giving engineering a list of feature requests and executing a series of tasks like they’re like a big To Do list. You act as a tactical implementer as you add no insight/or value to product development. I was a great marketer.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

The research activities must be technological in nature; in other words, they must rely on the sciences such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, etc. Typical indicators of qualified research include: Degreed engineers, scientists, or software developers on staff. Manufacturing products.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But wanting to materialize a product or service and sustaining its operations are two different things. There are a plethora of such tools available online and they’re customized to suit different operations. It is a task organizer tool that helps you sort your team’s development efforts efficiently. It is highly secure.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Engineering is critical but it is not everything. Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use. Equally – a great VP Finance can be leveraged well to take on finance, legal, HR and much of the operational tasks. PM’s are underrated in Silicon Valley these days.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. A data science and AI consulting company should be looked at primarily when you need to improve the products which have the appropriate functions around machine learning.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. Is it that some CEOs are better than others? Are their people smarter?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The most expensive cost right off the bat is the time commitment when compared to the minimum capital and operational cost. My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries. I don’t just focus on helping businesses grow by ranking them higher in search engines.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. If you asked me to build Facebook.com for you, I would quote you $500,000 and nine months of development and design time,” says Schippers. Based on its early rounds, a minimum viable product for Uber cost about $1 to $1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Always seek input.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Here are other ways to use technology to reduce operational costs. Skipping brand or product promotions. Wouldn’t it be wiser to channel your funds to product development and let your products speak for themselves? Marketing VAs can handle SEO and content marketing to increase your ranking on search engines.

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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. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Getting Customers Involved in Product Priorities – Around the time that Salesforce.com acquired my company we also acquired a company called CrispyNews. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived. cared about the feature set.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

My wife and I both worked as mechanical engineers, so we wanted a name that paid tribute to our profession. Momentum is a term that is highly related to engineering, as it relates to motion and dynamics. Our company name, Momentum Property Solutions, was heavily influenced by our previous jobs. 9- A merger of two companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. In a way, you can think of BD as “sales when you don’t know what the product is yet.”

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. Shopify swiftly came in with solutions that allowed these firms to turn their point-of-sale terminals into e-commerce storefronts and begin online operations the same day. Google wasn't the first search engine around. 13- Google.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. One of the biggest challenges for companies in continuing to pursue growth is breaking out of the bounds of currently successful ways of operating; the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

Gnip has been adding customers at rate that any investor would be proud of, is executing flawlessly on the product and operations side as it scales up, and is posting month over month growth numbers that put it in the “they are killing it&# category. I’m super proud of Jud and the team he’s built at Gnip.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We asked him a few questions to learn about continuous delivery, why it’s useful, and what engineers and management need to do to implement it. LSC: One of the biggest fears people have about a continuous deployment environment is that it introduces more risk to engineering. How do you address that?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” (David Beisel). Hiring Your Team. ” (Melody Koh).

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