Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
A company at this stage could also face product development costs from consultants if they decided to outsource product development. However, Praveena has committed to personally get the first version of the product up and launched without outside consultants, so there is no expense here either.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 2, 2014
Here’s a look at three of the largest recent product fails, the reasons behind them, and how research can help you avoid the same pitfalls: 1. Google released Chromebook in October 2011, offering a faster and easier way to access the Internet. The product was known as a “thin client” and had no hard drive. Google Chromebook.
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 25, 2011
And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design. SLLCONF 2011 is happening on May 23 in San Francisco. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 24, 2012
A pair of wake-up-call studies by the Fournaise Marketing Group in London in 2011 and 2012 found that more than 70 percent of CEOs think that their chief marketing officers lack business credibility, lack the ability to generate acceptable growth, and lack the ability to explain how their programs will lead to increased business.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 5, 2011
I expect we’ll look back on 2011 as the year that Gnip went from a highly product development focused company to a company that was firing on all cylinders. Oh, and they are hiring as fast as they can find great people ; across the spectrum (business, sales, & engineering).
Lightspeed Venture Partners
JANUARY 6, 2011
Scott Albro of Focus , a knowledge sharing community for business people, has fully embraced the idea of constant iteration for 2011, taking the best practices of social media to the business media world. Our engineers often come up with great ideas, and they are the most productive when they work on these ideas.
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