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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of Agile Development And Customer Development View more presentations from Eric Ries. Just a thought.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. This is not what I have in mind.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

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. As they optimize their solution, they eventually wind up deriving Bresenhams circle algorithm.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. Those of us with a computer science background call it the hill-climbing algorithm. When we’re optimizing, product development teams encounter similar situations.

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A Place To Call Your Own: Building Your Brand’s Vertical Social Network

YoungUpstarts

You’re no longer a slave to the whims of social media’s algorithms, or the rise and fall of “hot” websites or apps that may be “over” by year’s end. By activating your own social platform, you can reclaim that data, and turn those consumer insights into the foundation of your marketing and product development efforts.