ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Companies experience a high churn rate because of bad product adoption. Many customers think about the solution or service as a fancy add-on, but not as a part of operational processes. Of course they have a great product and are well funded. It can be used across both product and marketing.

B2B 150

B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

Warrant 333

Warrant Germany France Cost 333

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

So at the end of ’94 I moved to France, because I wanted to learn Spanish. I had someone willing to offer me a job in France. I lived in the south of France in Antibes and in Cannes. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2012

Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas and building a minimal viable product. I could have gone to Nice (France) or Minsk or Bergen (Norway), but the event in my hometown was a lot easier to get to. "I That is where I come in. I signed up for this past weekend in St.

St. Louis 135

St. Louis Kansas City Norway Kansas 135

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

Even if failure can be educational and productive it is not an exercise to be repeated. The entrepreneur must have a clear vision & focus, must operate in an optimized environment and, most importantly, must work with good people who share the vision. What problem does my product/idea solve?

Early Stage 62

Early Stage Silicon Valley Thailand Incubator 62

Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone. despite having lots of competitors. ” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

Belarus 107

Belarus Kazakhstan Accredited Investor Early Stage 107

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Run great meetings (don’t be a productivity drain on the company). My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany. It is such an under-discussed issue as we spend our time in startups mostly talking about products, marketing and fund raising.

Ireland 319

Ireland Sales Germany Bankruptcy 319

Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

All data privacy, time management, productivity and project management requirements of the clients are discussed, and custom solutions are provided on an individual basis. across the country, as well as operating over 35 active in-country payroll solutions for those working overseas. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

Saudi Arabia 40

Saudi Arabia Czech Republic Hiring South Korea 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2016

I was in France and the UK for business last week so I was a bit out of the tech news cycle and more focused on the world events that were happening nearby. I saw DSC before they launched and as I’m not an expert in eCommerce or consumer products I didn’t have a strong point-of-view on the category.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles eCommerce France Video 150

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

Mobile companies in Denmark , France, Italy and all across the globe have been doing many things to get more profits. There is no point of making a high quality mobile if the company is not able to market the services and products to the customers. This means that there is more and more competition. Marketing is done in many ways.

Mobile 101

Mobile Denmark Italy France 101

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 5, 2020

Business operations ground to a halt. To make matters more challenging, economic powerhouses like the United States, Europe, Spain, Italy, and France, have also been hard hit. However, TJX has the ability to purchase brand-name products and sell them at a reasonable price.

United States 102

United States Marketing Stock China 102

Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

The second is to demonstrate the reach of the product. At Algolia, it includes sales call shadowing (because engineers need to understand how to sell the product, as well as build it) and a specific project that will be completed in the first 2-3 weeks, giving new hires an early opportunity to demonstrate their skills.

Part-Time VPE 48

Part-Time VPE Engineer Retention API 48

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

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. The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Through the app, you get access to close to a million items of clothing, shoes and beauty products from over 300 retailers. Serial entrepreneur Weyrich has started three Internet companies and three mobile app companies since the age of 22, and recently sold a Catholic Dating service he owned and operated in 2007 to a competitor.

Portugal 147

Portugal Netherlands Italy Spain 147

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

As Smartphones Reach A Global Tipping Point, Why Your Product Isn't As Simple As You. Vox's Jim Bankoff To Hit Disrupt NY. Quora Steals John Hegeman From Facebook. First Hands-On With The Incident Tech GTar. Google Crashes Facebook Home's Easy. EA's Internal Memo On The Layoffs. Parse Is Facebook's Answer To Android.

SEC 61

SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

When we build products, we use a methodology. We know some products succeed and others fail, but the reasons are complex and the unpredictable. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." The theory of Product/Market Fit is one key component of customer development, and I highly recommend Marcs essay on that topic.

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I showed up in Sophia Antipolis, France (living in Antibes if you know the area) and I was in “Network Solutions.” I got to help a telecom operator decide whether or not to bid on 3G spectrum and how much to pay. Not operational. Not an operator. “You should really be an operating partner.

Marketing 385

Marketing Europe Engineer Networking 385

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.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

All of the incentives described in the article focus on making it easy and highly desirable to launch your product: [He] claimed that launching projects is the natural state that Googles internal ecosystem tends towards, and its because they pump so much energy into pointing people in that direction. Focus on launching.

Agile 76

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. Probably not; it’s much easier to blame the particular person who made the mistakes.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Its not enough just to build a product with great features - you have to figure out if there is a market for it.

Lean 102

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment 102

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. I had it all set up to a jury-rigged SurveyMonkey - PayPal minimum viable product. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I meet people all the time who have no technical background whatsoever, and they want to start an online business, perhaps build a mobile app, or launch a SaaS product. If you still don’t know what product/market fit is, and why it matters, please read up on it. Three major acquisitions in as many months in this space confirm it is).

Technical Cofounder 49

Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe 49

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

This condition makes it much easier for teams to innovate, experiment, and achieve sustained productivity. For example, imagine a team operating in a traditional waterfall development system, without continuous deployment, test-driven development, or continuous integration. Another is used by marketing to refer to what customers see.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. Continuous Flow Manufacturing is a Lean technique that boosts productivity by rearranging manufacturing processes so products are built end-to-end, one at a time (using singe-piece flow), versus the more prevalent batch and queue approach.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

Lean 140

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment 140

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 7, 2013

subscribers and is the second biggest ISP in France, making this a significant move. The juiciest titbit this morning is undoubtedly the news that upstart French ISP Free is now shipping ad-blocking software and hardware to its customers with defaults set so all ads are blocked. Free has 5.2m they insist on Net Neutrality ).

.Net 98

.Net France Portfolio Government 98

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.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Austin Startup

AUGUST 15, 2017

Working with global transportation provider RATP Dev, which operates the Capital Metro bus system, we’re installing Bluecats Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) beacons and intelligent Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) asset tracking solutions along the 2nd Street corridor. These beacons operate on the Connecthings SaaS platform, ADTAG.

Austin 48

Austin France Mobile Europe 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

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. He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. about what their function needs to do to fully support the product.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Incorporate on any other day and you’ll be looking at filling out two business income tax returns for that year (one for the months when you were operating as a sole proprietor, and the second for those months after your incorporation became effective). View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo.

LLC 75

LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Incorporate on any other day and you’ll be looking at filling out two business income tax returns for that year (one for the months when you were operating as a sole proprietor, and the second for those months after your incorporation became effective). View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo.

LLC 75

LLC Social Media Startup Philadelphia 75