Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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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. These highlights focus on the key points I took away from my favorite talks.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Joe Bingold (MBA, Jun 2011) Head of Product Development for Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Control Systems, US Navy, MSME (Naval PGS), BSEE (MIT), P.E. The goal was to figure out whether this product could become a company. Dollar size of deals is sufficient to be profitable with direct sales strategy. in Control Systems.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Questions below were answered by Apptronik Director of Innovation and Product Development Jeff Cardenas , who is part of the fast-growing hardware ecosystem in Austin. We have two systems currently under development: a high-performance walking biped and an exoskeleton. What does Apptronik have planned for 2018?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Personal authority. That's just one example!

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. Offline sale – typically. Long sales cycle – 18 months or more. How to do shorten a long sales process? Knowledge Repo – open sourced. Share test results via newsletters and open forums. Quality of leads.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

“iPad” too is descriptive of the product, but the name of course triggered lots of jokes about feminine hygiene products. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though! “if the name of your product is the most important thing you’re discussing, you’re either deluded or have a pointless product.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months. I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. at 12:49 pm [.] at 12:57 pm [.]

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. For each tech stack we support, we need at least one expert following the primary source for security news for that tech stack. And gulp their dependencies.). Recent Posts.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow). The usual story is: We built this product because we needed it ourselves.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Technical debt happens from unexpected bugs and additional development work that results from using short-term solutions (like templates or open-source code). When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. Integrations.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses. At least Pidgin folks openly say “we are GTK+ front-end to libpurple&#. link] Jim Great article Seth.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Finally the board would fire the VP of sales.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. No startup will ever succeed without a persuasive and visionary sales leader.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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