Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 24, 2018
If you don’t have all these interests and skills, even your most “disruptive” products will likely fail. For example, the personal motorized scooter Segway was announced as disruptive technology way back in 2002, but is still not a successful business. If there is no competition, there is likely not a market.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be.
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The Next Web
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period. But if you were to replicate the product exactly, all those decisions are made for you.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
This means fewer resources on hand locally, so innovation centers come into play: they’re virtual locations where employees collaborate on new ideas, such as product development or marketing. What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years? Tech Startup dedicated to custom jeans circa 2013.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 9, 2016
Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. Iridium looked like it would be printing money when it got its satellites into space. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. It All Came Crashing Down.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Because they used the magic term ‘personas,‘ development teams were discouraged from developing their own, not realising that a market segment might contain multiple personas. Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It
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