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Make The Most Of Your Next VC Pitch By Doing These 10 Things

YoungUpstarts

On the other hand, if you arrive at a VC pitch without a comprehensive understanding of the industry you’re hoping to compete in, or without a clear path to profitability or a thoughtful product-development road map, you’ll likely leave empty-handed. Investors want to feel confident that they’ll see a return on their investment.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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10 Concrete Steps to Assure Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. There are financial metrics (Return on Investment, Hurdle Rate, etc.) Lessons Learned.

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Ten Principles Which Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

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Ten Steps to Survival by Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Great for visualizing work of product development. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office. Xtranormal. Presentation tools.