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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

IP Location Tools. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. 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. eway direct.

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Disrupting Gillette

Rob Go

I have tremendous appreciation for the level of science and innovation that have gone into the best-of-breed Gillette products. There is real IP and decades of effort around optimizing performance that the new players need to deal with. I think Harry’s is a solid product, with beautiful branding. Time will tell.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. It all depends on where you’re at.

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. Product development and maintenance are important, but you’ll also need customer support when you launch your new product, featureset, or conduct a handover. The workaround?