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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.

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How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She is the founder and CEO of The Grommet and the author of the book How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas Into Products That Build Successful Businesses. Why to name your business after your vision, not your first product.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Why Bitcoin is Gaining Worldwide Popularity

The Startup Magazine

First, the Bitcoin global popularity increased after the financial crisis of 2008 which led many to question the stability of national currencies and fiat money. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer decentralised form of digital currency that uses cryptography to maintain security and anonymity (Nakamoto 2008).

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs. One of them is called frugal innovation.

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Deep Search on Product Attributes with Israel’s Ineze [Interview]

VC Cafe

Ineze (“Here it is”-in Hebrew), is an Internet search-engine, which aims to reduce the amount of time people spend looking for products, by yielding fine-tuned results based on user needs. When presented with a smaller choice of relevant products, people found decision-making easier and more rewarding.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008! The second part of the year has seen a lower flow of blog posts, but part of my 2008 resolutions are to remedy to this shortfall, so be prepared for a strong 2008. We are optimistic though, as bearish markets tend to increase the need for more workforce productivity.