The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

Here are the scrum components: Roles: Team, Product owner, Scrum Master and Team. Events: Sprint planning meeting, Release planning, Daily scrum meeting, Review meeting and Sprint retrospective. Articrafts: Product backlog, Sprint backlog. It leads to scope creep, due to lack of definite end-date. Iterative release.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Alternative Capital. “

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

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”). Although every organization faces some uncertainty in developing new stuff, the conditions are not always extreme.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host Will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. And it doesn't have to be technology.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Objectively reviewing your finances is important, and this is a prerequisite to creating a forecast. Things like product development, materials and packaging, performance-based bonuses, and more. Review sales goals and look to see if there are any aspects of your business in need attention, and therefore financing.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. It’s possible to simulate user experience through existing, lower-tech resources. An entrepreneur can quantitatively test potential buyers’ real intentions and develop a genuine understanding their needs before building out the product (app).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. Not really.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here]. At month six, one of the early hires leaves, a developer who turns out wasn’t a good fit. Seven months in, there is a beta product. There is $350k left in the bank. It’s better than before, but not by miles.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Geoffrey Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm and four other books, Geoffrey Moore has been thinking about high-tech product development longer than most of have been doing anything on a computer. Adding features without making the product too complex creates real value for your customers and produces revenue for your company.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. A study by the Nielsen Norman Group (NNG) showed that commercial enterprises—as well as non-profits and government agencies—consistently generate a strong ROI from investments in usability. According to that same NNG research: Ecommerce sites can expect to double their sales. It costs money.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months. Even executives need reviews.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These laws apply to every entrepreneurial endeavor, not just high tech startups, though we’ll still spend plenty of time on the technology industry. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the people involved aren’t hard-working; they may in fact be quite diligent in turning the crank on an existing process.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. Building Product 2. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

The reasons why I am not a big fan of development shops are too numerous to go into here. In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product. 5 Points: You are developing software for government or major corporate clients.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

Prior to starting Ozmo both Ming and I worked in a design house creating new and better products. Throughout my five years of experience in product development, I realized that most of product launch failure could have been avoided by getting the product right earlier on, or understanding the limit of the maker.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I think this is one of your better posts this year, because you are addressing a risk that you face AFTER some early success, when your guard is down and you are more inclined to believe that you know what you are doing and therefore do not need to be as diligent at framing your hypotheses and how you plan to verify them. YOU and ONLY YOU.

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