Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. Imagine you are crossing the street.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The fee schedule may also differ between agencies — some charge a subscription fee, others charge a one-time flat rate per app and still others will customize a quote based on your specifications. TheyMakeApps.com is a good resource if you’re looking for a competent mobile dev agency. PM OK, agree.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling. This is a full time job.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Debate Point: Telling People What You’re Doing In the beginning there are three basic things every startup needs: experts to give you input on your product as you’re building it, users to help you beta test your product in a real-life setting, customers who will give you real money for what you’re building and take real risk in doing so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. So we tried to craft a strategy that would give us the product development leverage we needed to serve all customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers. Hes working harder than ever, and so is his team. But they are pushing for the things that matter to customers - features. So they insist on having the final say on when a feature is "done" enough to show to customers. Thats a bug.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I bought a family-run business and we made some great strides to turn that around, bought some new equipment, brought on some customers like Unilever and Hershey and Godiva and did some great work. A lot of our customers brought their packaging back in-house, there wasn’t as much demand. We started off with Gangbusters in 2000.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. Account managers can tier customers. It’s not cheap.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Read on and let me help you decide… My Money Comes From My Email List The majority of people who will read this blog post will come from my email newsletter because I sent a message about this review. You can customize colors and change all the text elements to match your offer, and upload an image of your product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? The good news: There are good answers to these questions! Now Adriana has an epiphany?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. You can choose the built in Mobile and Tablet Traffic segment, and apply it to any standard or custom report you want to analyze inside Google Analytics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Were there to serve customers direclty, as well as all of the other functions of the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. How to build your core team for early-stage startup?

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well.

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