Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Before you can develop a marketing strategy, you need to know who you’re marketing to. At this point, you probably have a solid understanding of your target audience and who you want to do business with, but what about the rest of your team? Of course, most startups are all about product development and launch.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Much of the rest of the presentation is devoted to explaining to the group the causes for the concerns and offering information for the group to use in the feedback session to help that CEO seek solutions and to provide resources to them for that purpose.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. This functional team philosophy is in contrast with the idea of a single person who, being smarter than all the rest makes all the crucial decisions. The reasons for startup failures are well documented in numerous sources. Ran out of Cash – 29%.

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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

JULY 16, 2019

Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain. To calculate precisely how much you need to spend on that, analyze the following factors: Developers’ seniority.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Before you can develop a marketing strategy, you need to know who you’re marketing to. At this point, you probably have a solid understanding of your target audience and who you want to do business with, but what about the rest of your team? Of course, most startups are all about product development and launch.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Start with those around product/market fit – who are your customers and what features do they want? Then march through the rest of the business model. You act as a tactical implementer as you add no insight/or value to product development. Specifically, what beliefs and hypotheses? Who are the payers?

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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.

Startup 254

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start.

Intellectual Property 134

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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

JULY 31, 2021

Smart entrepreneurs know they must deliver a quality product, develop a winning business model, and attract real customers. From my perspective, accountability should be the guiding principle for entrepreneurs who seek to change the world, as well as for employees who want to stand out above the rest. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Hiring great team mates is the only way to ensure that you rest easy when delegating responsibilities. Your internal team creates your external results, such as new products and increased revenues. It doesn’t take long to ask your employees and network, so do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Although early adopters may not be deterred by complex interfaces, the rest of your customers will rate the solution by the wording, fonts, white space, and pictures, not by how many options you can fit on a page. Unfortunately, even today many engineers and product developers believe that marketing is just for advertisements.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Keeping 3-6 projects going year-round is a full-time job in itself — a job resting on your shoulders. Billable hours trump product development; it’s always second-class, so you get a second-class side-project. The product is given a budget, even to the point of a separate bank account (and corporation?)

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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.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I also think a lot of people underestimate the tax that having a hacked-together solution levies on your product development, even in the short term. For example, not having good system monitoring doesn’t just make developers’ jobs hard when they try to figure out why the servers are down at 3 a.m.,

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Why is it only alarming now?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

We want our clients to feel like out of all the shopping they have done online they finally reached the top of their journey in securing the right product for their families. We always strive to be a cut above the rest in our industry and want to consistently uphold and earn our name. All boxes checked the rest is history.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

SLLCONF featured incredible entrepreneurs on stage to put those ideas to rest (watch, for example: Aardvark , Grockit , Dropbox , PBworks ). It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

It’s also for founders who want to think about how engineering and the rest of the business team can realign around a shared set of goals. Dan comes to this conversation as an engineer, product developer, and startup veteran with a career-long interest in how people interact with the complex systems they themselves build.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. If not, brand equity is your strongest asset.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. So how could we get the rest to upgrade?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It obviously can’t overpower the rest of the print, but it should generally be the largest item on the card itself. If you don’t already have a precise typography for the rest of your branded materials, choose one that you feel reflects your business. – If you have a logo, use it and make it the primary feature of the card.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Ship it.&# Ship it.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? (for This is the speed-up-or-slow-down moment.

Software Review 141

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Getting Customers Involved in Product Priorities – Around the time that Salesforce.com acquired my company we also acquired a company called CrispyNews. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development. I remember in the early days of Mint when I first played around with the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

And just as my gut feel about the likely success of startups is often determined by looking at their velocity of product development and market progress of their product, so too is recruiting a factor in my assessment. Attitude over Aptitude. Only Hire A+ People. Hiring at a Startup. I’ve lived through every excuse.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

It's just a thin strip no wider than a scrollbar; in fact some products put the boogers on top of the scrollbar. The mini-viewer is not only larger, it has significant width, which means you have to occupy the rest of the right side of the screen with other crap. Customers generally prefer the right features over more features.

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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. For the rest of the partnership, their focus would be to quickly form an opinion about the team and probing on the areas of their hesitation.”

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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. Cut Your Workweek to a 50-Hour Max to Activate Remote Modes of Thought.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Positive experiences create emotional value, which keeps customers coming back and makes small businesses stand out from the rest. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2019

However, if it is already existing in the market with the rest of the other competitors (with a relatively higher number), then you should be careful but make sure to keep an eye on your opponents every move. When pricing, here are three options you may take into account: a lower price, the same one or a higher price than the rest.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. In the past, very few work from home jobs were created.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

For example, tech businesses managing product development road maps, research and development teams, extending software features or tech features in hardware would be likely to build strategy and tactics around technology. Give the investors what they need to know, and spare them from the rest. They’ll thank you.

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