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How To Prevent Gaps in An Innovative Startup Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm. Marketing costs can be a deep hole.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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CEO Fires 90% of Staff, Replaces Them with AI Bot

ReadWriteStart

Due to their versatility and efficiency, AI-powered customer support bots have grown in popularity in recent years. Any question from a customer, from a simple request for information to a complex technical issue, can be answered by one of these bots. Q: Are there concerns about job security due to the adoption of AI bots?

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit.

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Why It Pays To Focus Your Business On A Narrow Niche

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm. Marketing costs can be a deep hole.

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Why You Need the Right Sustainability Reporting Software for Your Company

The Startup Magazine

The process starts with a comprehensive review of a company’s processes and operations to identify key opportunities and risks. Tasks such as compliance with accounting, tax-related duties, payroll management, and product development rules can gallop the bulk of your time and leave little for ESG sustainability reporting.