YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. Today sustainability and ESG are still very nascent within companies, with regulatory bodies and frameworks still being set in stone. CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. .

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2019

As a business owner, you need to innovate your products and services to become incessantly appealing to your customers. While it might not be easy to start conceptualizing a new product, there are plenty of benefits to doing so. In this post, you’ll learn the pros of developing new products to make your business more successful.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum is a framework that is used by software development teams to address complex problems while delivering products of the highest value. There are three important roles in product development, which are product owner, scrum master and Scrum development team. Partnership with the product owner.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. Were startups failing because of product failures or was there some other failure mode? Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] What was the difference here?

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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. Stay Lean and Low.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

As its official website suggests, it is a better way of building products. It is a lightweight framework, easy to understand but difficult to master. The first and foremost shelf of the scrum framework is the product backlog. As a product developer, there won’t be a day where the company doesn’t face any issue.

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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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SVPG

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Much has been written about how to do product discovery in startups, by me and many other people. 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. See Product Discovery with Live-Data Prototypes.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. Waterfall Development. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Here’s how. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

Let me use the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for product development to explain why. Reams have been written about the JTBD framework. I will give you a high-level summary here, but if you are building products then I recommend spending some time with Google to find out a bit more. An example from Photobox.

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Board Effect

JULY 10, 2023

Download our Guide to Board Effectiveness to identify areas of improvement and apply best practices for a more effective, productive and successful board. ———————————————————————————————– Technology Facilitates Data Processing and Analytics When boards have excellent data, they find many valuable purposes for it.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2013

While marketers go gaga over social technologies and their impact on digital commerce, it is often our physical perceptions of a product which influence buying decisions. The challenge, however, is this: How can we design our products, advertisements and experiences such that they push the right sensory buttons in our consumers?

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

In my last article I discussed the role of the leader of the product organization. I want every product leader to feel considerable urgency and importance around this need. ” This note discusses the technique that I use and advocate for providing a framework for ongoing skills assessment and development.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

They over think the decision framework. And just as my gut feel about the likely success of startups is often determined by looking at their velocity of product development and market progress of their product, so too is recruiting a factor in my assessment. Check your legal framework. Be open and productive.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. Platform as a Product. 1: It Takes a Village.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

Most online MBA programs have gained traction since the pandemic and are a favorable alternative to an on-campus program because of their flexibility, affordability, and innovative frameworks. Marketing: It revolves around effective product and service development, pricing, distribution, and promotion.

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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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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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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. Power tools like applied improvisation games can help you run faster.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company. it sure is tempting.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be. Apr 27 2010.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture. million to develop.”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

Instead, we need to streamline and accelerate our processes by borrowing techniques from the world of lean and agile product development. These frameworks show us how to start working from a small amount of information, learn quickly, and iterate often. Consider the example above, which is primarily for a B2B audience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). in ten years?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2015

Full of vigor and enthusiasm with a product-market fit that seems destined to change the world, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and strive for world domination. After all, dangling a carrot is only effective if at some point you actually get the satisfaction of enjoying the carrot. Here’s how: 1. Annual goals aren’t good enough.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Jonathan Irwin will lead a workshop on advanced interview skills , including the different kinds of customer interviews, how to develop questions, and how to apply the answers to an actual decision around a product. By the end of his workshop, you will know how to apply innovation accounting to truly track the progress of your product.

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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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ConversionXL

APRIL 17, 2019

You can use proven frameworks, like the Jobs-to-Be-Done (JTBD) approach. Product Aware. They’re aware that your product can solve their pain. They understand exactly why your product is a choice solution to their pain. Why do they choose your product, etc.? you discover what they need in a product.

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Street Smart Product Manager

APRIL 5, 2014

In my last post on defining an MVP in corporate innovation, I talked about how best practices in garnering stakeholder buy-in for product roadmaps espoused by Bruce McCarthy can be used as a framework for the same when defining an MVP in an “internal” startup product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning framework used to take a big-picture look at the internal and external factors impacting your brand and business. You want people who have different perspectives on the company and should include people from sales, marketing, product development, engineering, etc. What is a SWOT analysis?

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Up and Running

MARCH 17, 2022

To get the whole picture and have a framework on which to build your business you also need a strategic plan and an operational plan. It describes the products and services that your business sells and who the customers are. Product, services, and operations are all explained so that readers understand how customer needs are met.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. What’s going on?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

One of the topics that raised heated debate was whether I had conflated technical design with product design , because I made the admittedly counter-intuitive claim that sometimes good technical design actually leads to increased technical debt. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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