Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers.

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Small Business Force

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Few entrepreneurs or small business owners involve their customers in the product development process. Yet, if you think about it, customer and/or market input is critical to a product's success. Unfortunately, most of that comes AFTER the product is completed and already being sold. I know what this market needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2017

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. Reducing product turn time. Extending the runway. The Lean Start-Up Environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. There''s always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Samsung referred to the watch as an “iconic fashion accessory,” but the reality is most women wouldn’t dare put the Gear on their wrists. Thinking Aloud dealing with failure failure Malcolm Stewart product development product management' The design also created problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving. This is evident in the widespread use of Jugaad, a Hindi term that refers to improvised or makeshift solutions. Here are some of the most important benefits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. There's always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. There's always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. There''s always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

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Board Effect

JULY 10, 2023

By combining and analyzing these diverse data sets, board directors can gain a comprehensive perspective on market trends, identify opportunities for product development and service enhancement, and ultimately make informed decisions that drive the growth and success of their community bank.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost.

Startup 227

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2013

Informational or instrumental touches are used to gain information about an object, while hedonic or autotelic touches refer to the pleasurable sensations of touch (like the feel of soft velvet on our skin). The most fulfilling types of touch are those involving humans touching one another. Sensory Makeovers.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

Coding standards - Ensure that your code meets software development and quality standards and fits into the continuous release process. Ownership - Participate in the whole sprint process for product development. Mentorship - Deep dive into the project with the support of our professional developers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. The “build” step refers to building a minimal viable product (an MVP.)

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. The concept of “seed funding” originates from the metaphor of growing a tree, in which the seed represents the initial component required to move forward with developing a business.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2015

Teams will usually be coordinated for up to 5 years before a product actually launches when referring to some of the really large companies. This will enable the successful firm to develop new products and target them properly while maximizing potential. This is quite huge and not available for the smaller companies.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

But before bringing this out to the general public, you have to pass through the challenge of developing this product first. However, product development isn’t a process for you to rush through. New product development business concept on device screen. This refers to the ideation process.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

They also haven’t launched a product, so there is no corresponding “cost of goods sold” – the direct cost of delivering their product. The default Quickbooks setup uses “Income” to refer to “Revenue”. This results in a gross margin of $0, where gross margin is revenue – cost of goods sold.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Two studies have shown that only about 10 percent of promoters actually refer profitable new customers.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

The case studies and references. You can discuss every relevant thing including the product development as well as thorough research in your problem research. There will be a point where you will want to hire the professionals of data science to build the specific software for your business.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

Coding standards - Ensure that your code meets software development and quality standards and fits into the continuous release process. Ownership - Participate in the whole sprint process for product development. Mentorship - Deep dive into the project with the support of our professional developers.

Bulgaria 52

Bulgaria Java Turkey Europe 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

Feature creep” (or scope creep) refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product before first delivery. There's always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2019

While it might not be easy to start conceptualizing a new product, there are plenty of benefits to doing so. In this post, you’ll learn the pros of developing new products to make your business more successful. New product development refers to the process of creating a new product, either tangible or intangible, or both.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2019

Producing quality products. up product delivery. Production of custom prototypes. Product interviews prior to other competitors. CNC machining services refers to machining with tools. CNC Machining Service. The CNC index control machine is programmed by the CNC machining language, usually G code.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products. You need to give them advance notice of your product development or better yet let them help influence your direction. You need to give them “back stage&# passes to your company.

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Spencer Fry

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We now have 6 product developers — if you include our CTO — and they're often working on different projects. It's common that all product developers won't know every part of our codebase as well as they might have when our team was only two or three people. It's even difficult for me at times as the CEO.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

This trend is only set to increase in the coming years, and I expect to see more companies focusing on sustainability in their product development and business practices. Thanks to Aktug Dogun, Refer Mate ! #21- Another trend I see emerging is the rise of experiential travel.

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