ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.”

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. For web-based products, user research can deliver quantitative measurement of on-site user behavior and qualitative insights from open-ended surveys and user recordings. The ResearchXL framework uses quantitative and qualitative user research to inform CRO strategies. It costs money.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

There are countless more MBA benefits, so let’s dive in and see why it might be the right choice for you: Acquiring Managerial Skills: One significant benefit of an MBA program is that you can develop managerial skills through your degree program, whether you attend the on-campus or online MBA courses.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Besides the general focus on customer and product development, an entrepreneur should foresee the next moves that will serve to guide him on the right path. With improving awareness of our services within the Texas market, we plan to be able to expand our team and establish the framework for our roots in DFW.

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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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Board Effect

JULY 10, 2023

For example, poor data may cause board directors to allocate too much or not enough funding for certain issues or programs. For boards, not having enough data, or not having data in understandable forms, sometimes causes them to make the wrong decisions.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Done informally as part of an accelerator, yes, but not with a framework based on a clear process and clear pedagogy.

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Business Plan Silicon Valley Saudi Arabia Lean 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Thats simply impossible on most platforms.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Or under product teams? Here’s a rundown of the frameworks, their functions, and the benefits and challenges of each. The center of excellence model is basically a combination of the above two frameworks, utilizing both a centralized team and also distributing optimization employees throughout the different departmental branches.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 21, 2014

Frameworks like CPS are essential. CPS is a time-tested framework. FEI process training is about how to conduct and orchestrate a series of activities that happen before the classic stage-gate/pipeline of new product development. If you are in charge of an innovation program or initiative — do training first.

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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.” The Growth Manager is the catcher and champion for product requests from outside the growth team.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many have fine-tuned frameworks with a high level of sophistication. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. New ideas need to integrate product development with marketing and sales as well. A Practical Solution for Medium Sized Companies to Grow. The 80/20 Solution for the MisFortune 10,000.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) are all expensive and potentially fatal distractions if done before you have found product/market fit and a repeatable sales model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. LSC: Continuous delivery involves a set of frameworks that you can put in place over time. If there’s a problem in production, developers need to own it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

You can give advice about applying Lean Startup ideas to business areas other than product development. In addition to talks, the program will include peer-to-peer events for sharing ideas and meeting other entrepreneurs, along with structured mentoring. So, no, you absolutely do not have to be a developer to give a talk.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

This explosive growth has in no small part been due to the popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (or UFC) league, brought to the forefront in the past decade through the entertaining, if testosterone-heavy, Ultimate Fighter reality program on the Spike cable TV channel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve got a new scholarship program up and running. Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. We have s cholarship programs available to help with ticket prices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Firmness: A program should not have any bugs that inhibit its function. We owe a lot to this seminal document.

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SVPG

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But one of the real advantages from a product point of view is that there’s no legacy to drag along, there’s no revenue to preserve, and there’s no reputation to safeguard. However, once your product develops to the point that it can sustain a viable business (congratulations!), Protect Employees and Customers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Next, it’s time to embark on a more detailed product development process so you can document their exact features and interfaces with enough detail to implement them. Use Design Thinking 2.0 to build the future. Second, you improve your customer’s experience, which improves brand perception and demonstrates progress.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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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. The Growth Manager is the catcher and champion for product requests from outside the growth team.

Management 20

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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. The Growth Manager is the catcher and champion for product requests from outside the growth team.

Management 20

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

More important, the iteration framework gave us something like a meta-process: we could try new ideas about how to manage development process and measure them against historical data to see what could further optimize the process. At 65 mph, it''s like having a large animal sitting on your chest.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Using the framework Should these principles be a driving framework for self organizing teams, or should there be formal process or governance around it? Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. agile software development. (46). product management. (23). Simple Agile Product Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

Customer 167

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

Software Review 144

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

This whole framework breaks down when teams confront entrepreneurial situations in which theyre trying to build something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This whole framework breaks down when teams confront entrepreneurial situations in which theyre trying to build something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This I Believe was one of my favorite NPR programs. My career spans customer service, engineering, finance, product development, marketing, sales, and corporate functions. Point solutions don’t scale, frameworks scale (and people are grateful you've taught them a different way to think). Solve for scale.

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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. Series B – Develop Internal Communication & Recognition Programs. . Internal Communications & Internal Brand.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 20, 2012

CPS is a time-tested framework. FEI process training is about how to conduct and orchestrate a series of activities that happen before the classic stage-gate/pipeline of new product development. If you are in charge of an innovation program or initiative, do the training first. Stage-gate is in the textbooks.

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Framework Product Development Developer Programming 113

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The G/SCORE measures the key milestones a company has achieved in business building along seven factors: overall concept, market opportunity, competitive risk, product development, business development, team, and business model.

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

” This note discusses the technique that I use and advocate for providing a framework for ongoing skills assessment and development. I have always called this a development plan, but for some companies that term is used for when you have a problem employee that must improve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Use pair programming and collective code ownership. These are two other Extreme Programming practices that are explicitly designed to counteract the problems inherent in this situation. Pair programming is the most radical, but also the most helpful. So, fellow hackers, Id love to hear from you. Does this sound familiar?

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I hate business plan competitions. It provides a guideline for a methodical growth path for the company. Your investors may require something quite different.)

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