YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2019

Internal link architecture is something that few startups take the time to understand and master. When it comes to loyalty, customers must be able to trust your business. For example, if your vision is about reducing stress and simplifying your customers’ lives, a minimalist site is consistent with this vision.

Web Development 104

Web Development Developer Los Angeles Architecture 104

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2021

Some of the processes which UX includes are interaction design, wireframes and prototypes, information architecture, user and market research, and many more. Information architecture, site mapping, and experience mapping. Can they provide you with your own customized site or app. Usability testing and studies. Prototype design.

Mobile 141

Mobile Partner Developer Technical Review 141

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.”

Vertical 144

Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 144

ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

Website information architecture is no joke, yet the overwhelming majority of businesses structure their site using the IMO method (“In my opinion…”). If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do a proper information architecture analysis. What is information architecture? One or two menus?

Architecture 114

Architecture Metadata Vertical Design 114

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Sales teams have been using their CRMs for basic, day-to-day-functions — such as managing customer information and tracking purchase history — for decades. The technology acts as a virtual assistant that helps sales and customer service teams access important customer data with a simple voice command.

Sales 109

Sales Non-Compete Mobile Cloud 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

In fact, most see a more direct relationship between customers and their business success, so employee focus by default will end up in third place. Once this product-first, customer-second, and employee-last culture is set, it is extremely hard to change. Provide an inviting and appropriate work environment. Place shapes culture.

Silicon Valley 143

Silicon Valley Retention Metrics Architecture 143

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rather than punish them, it may pay you to nurture and manage their outside-the-box thinking, and capitalize on their innovations that help your customers and keep you ahead of the competition. Sometime employees on your front lines have a better handle on what customers need next than external entrepreneurs.

Employee 133

Employee Java Architecture Technical Review 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Once product software is written, it doesn’t take much effort to deliver it to customers. Software services, on the other hand, involve the creation of software customized for a specific situation, with a relatively low level of leverage and reuse. Outsourcing for services needs to be carefully managed, and almost never works.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

You spend the next few months hustling: learning the market, meeting with potential customers, and forming a vision. As this vision begins to crystallize, you build what will become your minimally viable product and scramble to find your first customer. An impending event (iOS 7) required some re-architecture at a minimum.

Mobile 129

Mobile Architecture CTO Hire Engineer 129

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

Today’s competitive environment requires adaptive and scalable infrastructures able to solve today’s challenges and address tomorrow’s needs; after all, the speed with which you process and analyze data may be the difference between winning and losing the next customer. Integration Approaches for Data Agility.

Agile 100

Agile Metadata Architecture Cloud 100

Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

Architectural and software design integrity is very important to us. Typically, the solution will be presented in graphical form, such as a system architecture with flow diagrams. Value to customers. Above all, the purpose of product development is to create value for customers. Technical design quality. People-first.

Part-Time VPE 100

Part-Time VPE Software Review Engineer Technical Review 100

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. When we graduate, we don’t really know what a “good customer” is. Other SaaS platforms in other industries may only need a few hundred customers. But he has passion.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Lean Colorado Engineer 132

Transformify

MAY 27, 2020

The complex onboarding process, multi-level approval hierarchy, custom upload of data to ERP, accounting and financial software and more are available upon request. The partnership with Paymo provides a user-friendly time tracking and task management solution to the customers of Transformify.

Management 81

Management Partner Architecture Software 81

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2021

Some of the processes which UX includes are interaction design, wireframes and prototypes, information architecture, user and market research, and many more. Information architecture, site mapping, and experience mapping. Can they provide you with your own customized site or app. Usability testing and studies. Prototype design.

Mobile 78

Mobile Partner Developer Technical Review 78

Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2020

Learn more about how they’re creating exciting, customizable rides for customers while also working on cleaning up the environment. eCarra is a passenger car service built on a multi-tenant architecture. We’re returning this week with the CEO from eCarra : Rock Robinson. eCarra Can you pitch your company to us?

Startup 63

Startup Green Architecture Software Developers 63

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Once product software is written, it doesn’t take much effort to deliver it to customers. Software services, on the other hand, involve the creation of software customized for a specific situation, with a relatively low level of leverage and reuse. Outsourcing for services needs to be carefully managed, and almost never works.

Intellectual Property 225

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners.

Business Plan 280

Business Plan Product Architecture Business Model 280

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Customers are going to be happy to know that data will be safely coded from its source to its target. The company promises to provide recovery time object or RTOs within seconds and is definitely attracting many customers. Part of the reason this tool is so versatile is because it actually comes with an adaptive architecture.

Security 104

Security Software Review Azure Cloud 104

OnlyOnce

JULY 7, 2022

No one can get on a plane and save a key customer from leaving you like you can. I remember reading years ago that Bill Gates, long after he even stopped being CEO of Microsoft and was Chairman, still got involved in some major technical architecture decisions and reviews. No one can congratulate a sales rep on a key win like you can.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Architecture Restful Hiring 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

You need full control of your core technology, so I suggest you supplement your own expertise as soon as possible, to tackle the never-ending technical questions of architecture, competition, scalability, and customer support. Investors know this, and look for two or three-person teams who have the requisite complementary skills.

Technical Review 230

Technical Review Technology Founder Management 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas. A good execution requires a plan and the right people, combined to create operational excellence and exceptional customer value. Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Architecture Agile Business Model 120

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 24, 2015

A market size of epic proportions, a groundbreaking architectural approach, and a world-class founding team drove our decision to invest. Rubrik innovates with a slimmer architectural approach to delivering instant recovery by eliminating the need for backup software. A $47 Billion Data Management Market. A World-Class Team.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cofounder Application Development Engineer 60

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling.

Part-Time VPE 318

Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners.

Business Plan 120

Business Plan Product Architecture Startup 120

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount.

Cloud 60

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

The severity of potential damage tends to depend on the sensitivity of the data exposed – something that Equifax customers recently found out about painfully first-hand. It comes as no surprise that common vulnerabilities are still an attractive attack vector for hackers to gain access to sensitive data. So what can organizations do?

Security 118

Security Software Review Technical Review API 118

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Architectural 3D rendering. This is a photorealistic rendering of an architectural project. Rendering improves the customer experience. You can playfully present to your customers what they are looking for and help them understand what does not yet exist. 3D video animation processing. 3D images enhance marketing.

Architecture 125

Architecture Design Video Differentiation 125

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Customers are bombarded from all angles today for information to improve their user experience, yet they need to protect highly personal things. User privacy. Integration.

Technology 206

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 206

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Such direct experiences allows one to test critical “leap-of-faith” assumptions about what customers like and dislike.

Lean 183

Lean Technical Review North America Startup 183

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This network isn’t mutually exclusive with building an audience of customers. SparkToro is an audience research platform that helps marketers find their prospective customers’ main sources of influence. If you’re talking about landscape architecture and you’re identified with it in social media, you have a plausible résumé.

Reputation 134

Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

At this stage, the team is seeking market and customer validation metrics. The MVP is the most pared-down version of a product that customers are willing to purchase or use. In the third and final installation of this series, we’ll examine the four architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework.

Cleveland 127

Cleveland Framework Marketing Early Stage 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Customers are bombarded from all angles today for information to improve their user experience, yet they need to protect highly personal things. User privacy. Integration.

Agile 230

Agile Startup Architecture Distribution 230

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. But this allowed us to learn more about our users and real estate customers. What inspired you to start Digs? Like many startups, we were self-funded and had to launch an MVP that wasn’t the product we had in our minds.

Chad 111

Chad Illinois Nepal Haiti 111

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Alignment with User/Customer. Please note that I’m not referring here to internal customers or stakeholders; that’s below under alignment with business units. I’m referring here to alignment with the actual customers and users of the site or service. Alignment with Architecture. Again, this is a balance.

SCRUM 63

SCRUM Product Architecture Technical Review 63

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

Lean 294

Lean Chile Ukraine Spain 294