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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

View from Seed

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. NextView Ventures: For those who might be unfamiliar, what is this concept of pretotyping?

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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 Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

billion acquisition of Sweden-based software company Mojang, the developer behind the popular building game ““Minecraft”, which has sold over 100 million copies since its release in 2009, illustrates the degree to which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s long-term vision for Microsoft is taking root at that company. Microsoft’s $2.5

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But here was a $499 product that could let everyone use video.) Even though we won’t make a ton of money, it will be an ambassador for the rest of our product family.

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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How to Use Smoke Tests to Validate Your Product or Feature Ideas

ConversionXL

Think you’re sitting on the next big idea for a product or a product feature? So, how can you validate the ideas sitting in your startup notebook or your product feature backlog without wasting resources? Smoke tests are specifically designed to be run quickly and frequently during the software development stages.

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