Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development. It would turn out that “famous” investors referring companies don’t necessarily refer better companies. And convey this in your pitch. Sometimes this is true.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. But when we talk about “lean,” we’re referring to the processes a company can use, when developing a new product or service, to learn quickly about the questions it has.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

Whether they were critical to product development, marketing, or a successful exit, each of these individuals can have a significant impact on the amount of money the business is worth. A complete business plan will also include financial projections, sometimes referred to as a pro-forma.

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Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

These founders specify, design, and build a fully featured product using classic product development methods without ever leaving their building. Executives look at that date and the calendar, working backward to ignite fireworks on the day the product is launched. Start-ups by definition have few, if any, of these.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. So we hired another firm to help us facilitate the removal of this clause. The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3%

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The term “startup” often refers to companies in high-tech industries such as information technology, biotech, social media, robotics, hardware manufacturing, etc. Still, it can also refer to enterprises that produce goods or provide services typical of more established firms (e.g., supermarkets). Employee-Owned Startups.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

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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. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

Technical Review 168

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

They live their purposes inside out, and everything else falls into place, always returning to the purpose that made them visionaries to guide the brand and its product development when things get difficult, markets change, or downfalls occur. You may be thinking Okay , easier said than done.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. For example, some startup sales execs believe hiring the core sales team is a key objective. Here’s what the product development diagram looks like from a sales perspective.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

There’s a reason why I refer to early-stage VC funding as vulture capital, and to be honest it’s pretty accurate. Focus on Product Development First. We prioritized validation from our customers by listening carefully to what our customers wanted and focusing on early-stage product development.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

Third, as Tom Treanor explains , “[C]hanging your marketing materials, email addresses, and online and offline references, and links to your old site is a long, painful, and costly process.” Second, purchasing a new domain and moving a site are expensive and time-consuming endeavors. I previously published this in Forbes.

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Up and Running

JULY 13, 2022

Visual trust refers to a subconscious interaction that someone has when they come to the site. Lastly, you can display a timeline of product developments or company milestones. Swiftmile’s website features a timeline and it highlights product launches since the company’s founding in 2015. .

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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. Some people refer to scope as effectiveness, Units, availability or quality.

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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. The founder and first hires have overcome obstacles and understand the behaviors that prove to lead to success.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? For how to manage that see, for instance, Queuing theory and product development or take some time to investigate resource management tools.)

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Every partner and employee can kill your success potential in a heartbeat, so don’t take shortcuts on your hiring and training practices. Networking and relationships.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

7:15] How do you manage the fact that somebody is hiring you to do marketing, but you can’t really do marketing if you don’t get into every aspect of their business? [10:20] Clare Price (07:24): And that's why one of the things that I'm doing with is developing what I call a ecosystem of right partners.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically. Selling a product is a tough process, full of “no’s,” whether they come on the phone with a prospect or as a low conversion rate on your landing page. Dec-15: Developer (product team).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Every partner and employee can kill your success potential in a heartbeat, so don’t take shortcuts on your hiring and training practices. Networking and relationships.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2021

Some companies refer to individuals carrying out general marketing tasks as marketing managers, while others distinguish the leaders in their marketing departments this way. Leaders and hiring managers are looking for marketing managers who are: Motivated. Many companies prefer to promote internally before hiring someone new.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Alas, they arent published in a dead-tree medium yet, so I cant say something like "they are the essential reference on my bookcase." but rest assured they would be. A Fundraising Survival Guide [link] Raising money has a mysterious capacity to suck up all your attention.

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Transformify

JULY 13, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. What does diversity hiring mean to startups? Building great products requires a diversity of thought. Congratulations!

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Look to movies and pop culture references that predict what the future may look like for inspiration. Many Instagram influencers hire professional photographers to capture this look. Whatever the inspiration, designs that tap the future for inspiration are more prevalent than ever, and the coming year sees this trend continue.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

By getting referred, you’re already starting your search with agencies that are trusted by people you trust. Maybe your contacts don’t know an agency, but if they’ve ever worked with talented developers or designers, they could point you in the right direction. Only then can they build a product that people will actually want to use.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

First, because the amateurs weren’t SEC-registered, the site had to refer to them with awkward terms like “geniuses.&# First, because the amateurs weren’t SEC-registered, the site had to refer to them with awkward terms like “geniuses.&# Within a month, kaChing observed several interesting things.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Its in reverse-chronological order, so start with page 3 or just use Seans handy reference. Its in reverse-chronological order, so start with page 3 or just use Seans handy reference. (You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv

San Francisco 133

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2012

My friend Chris Moody , President/COO at Gnip , refers to this as the execution phase of a business and there is no better example of execution in our current portfolio than the team at Gnip. years of product development and varying business approaches, Gnip found their magic moment about a year and half ago.

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Gust

OCTOBER 31, 2011

You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Every partner and employee can kill your success potential in a heartbeat, so don’t take shortcuts on your hiring and training practices. Networking and relationships.

Angel Investor 143

Angel Investor Venture Capital Networking Partner 143

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

It’s bad for their reputation, it’s bad for their brand, and they’re also going to make mistakes if they don’t have the right people at the table being listened to when they make marketing decisions, product development decisions. I hire based on resume or experience. It’s the meritocracy argument.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production. Another is used by marketing to refer to what customers see. In traditional batch-and-queue development, these two concepts are linked. All customers will see the new software as soon as it’s deployed.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean Startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas. Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Of course, readers of this blog know that the lean in "lean startup" doesnt refer to cost, but - rather - to Lean Thinking. Of course, readers of this blog know that the lean in "lean startup" doesnt refer to cost, but - rather - to Lean Thinking. 699 buys you months of server infrastructure." I think this is a fair question.

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