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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). At month six, one of the early hires leaves, a developer who turns out wasn’t a good fit. There is $350k left in the bank.

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What does a CTO do?

www.lanceglasser.com

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? Marketing and sales. The minimum viable product. Glasser 2007-2012. Metrics for cyclical businesses. Let the Games Begin! Stock buybacks.

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A Simpler Plan for Startups

Up and Running

She might benefit from developing a simple sales and expense forecast , maybe even a profit and loss , so she can plan how to use and develop her resources. One suggestion for getting started is to develop your plan in stages that meet your real business needs. Can you live without a sales and expense forecast?

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. If you’ve been in the sales game, you know that most customers will sell themselves if you just let them. You’ve just got to listen.

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How to Model Your Marketing Against the Product Lifecycle

ConversionXL

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. Rapid skimming. Take Netflix.

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Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference

Software By Rob

Geoffrey Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm and four other books, Geoffrey Moore has been thinking about high-tech product development longer than most of have been doing anything on a computer. Geoffrey also talked through the product adoption cycle, but this was less applicable to the products I deal with as a Micropreneur.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Joe Bingold (MBA, Jun 2011) Head of Product Development for Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Control Systems, US Navy, MSME (Naval PGS), BSEE (MIT), P.E. The goal was to figure out whether this product could become a company. Dollar size of deals is sufficient to be profitable with direct sales strategy. in Control Systems.