Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. Zoom connects us professionally and personally on all of our mobile and desktop devices. Lastly, Microsoft Office remains the most popular corporate productivity software program. Thanks to Christina Giaquinto, Modular Closets !

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 118

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

The actual year of mobile was 10 years ago (release of the iPhone) and we still have horrid mobile experiences out there. Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). 88% check email actively on smart phones, needs to be mobile optimized.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

Restful 222

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This company was so serious about dealing with this threat (they described it as “existential to their survival”) that they had mobilized the entire corporation to come up with new solutions. Understand whether the problem is immediately solvable, requires multiple minimum viable products to test several solutions, or needs more R&D.

Framework 389

Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 389

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and “improved” versions. In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. The Old Days – Waterfall Product Development.

Continuous Deployment 329

Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 329

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

m-Via does financial remittances using mobile phones for people from the US to Mexico. Getting Customers Involved in Product Priorities – Around the time that Salesforce.com acquired my company we also acquired a company called CrispyNews. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development.

Customer 280

Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. Often, erosion of customer loyalty has been going on for years but the company has failed to perceive it—until it’s too late. Image Source. Swimming with Sharks. Growth teams are like those sharks.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers?

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem.

Business Plan 335

Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model - first by finding product/market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition/activation, partners, costs, etc.). They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers.

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Advisory Board Customer Development Leadership 335

Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

In the digital age, you have to look at new avenues to engage with your audience and that typically involves mobile. A great article by the Design Management Institute (DMI) created an index that quantifies the ROI when design thinking is leveraged through the product development cycle. And when is the right time?

Texas 54

Texas Software Engineering Austin Engineer 54

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For a lot of brands, their iPhone products will run into the line-extension trap (see The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing ). So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. Expo SF (May.

Distribution 74

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. If there’s a problem in production, developers need to own it.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It’s a world that is characterized by the ability of a startup to be agile and relevant to keep up with market shifts in a crowded media environment. In a world of savvy consumers who are demanding more from the buyer experience, no amount of marketing can compensate for a bad product. Understanding The Millennial Buying Power.

Startup 97

Startup Campaign Agile Venture Capital 97

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

In Web/mobile apps, where multi-sided markets (separate users and payers) are often found, earlyvangelists can be users or payers. In both physical and Web/mobile channels, earlyvangelists display these common characteristics: They have a problem or need. MVPs for Web/Mobile Are Different.

Customer 119

Customer Advisory Board Engineer Cofounder 119

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product. Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]?

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

This is especially important for teenagers, because it allows them to participate in products without having to go through the complex negotiation with their parents that a subscription usually requires. If you go this route, be prepared to make money a dollar at a time, and to work with lots and lots of payment vendors. . Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth. Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. What went wrong?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

But if you want to be an agile, nimble competitor, it is a discussion you have to have. I was advising a stealth mobile application company (hello future one billion Facebook dollars!) If you've ever created a mobile app you know that from version 0.1 Even if in the end the TV budget stays 5,261% higher than digital.

Metrics 152

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152