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. Competitors arrive rapidly these days, so make sure you look often.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. Were startups failing because of product failures or was there some other failure mode? Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] What was the difference here?
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The Next Web
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Entrepreneurs who are considering starting their businesses might want to start by looking at this list of qualifications/requirements: The entrepreneur must have an idea for a product or service and understands how to make it happen. Increased Productivity. What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years?
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. We planned a series of questions that could aid both product and marketing.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. Motorola Dynatac 8000x ~1987. It All Came Crashing Down.
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. When you build a great solution or product, all you can think about is shipping more volume of your product to a larger audience.
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