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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

With the existing product in mind, the $500,000 would be broken out evenly over the nine months with the first two months dedicated to design, specifically user architecture, brand and polish design. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! 4) WhatsApp.

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Old Entrepreneurs Perform Better Than Their Young Counterparts?

Mike Michalowicz

– born CEOs and heads of product development at successful companies, and learned that the average age of successful founders was 39. In summary, older entrepreneurs do it better and not just because they have the stuff only age can provide: more and better contacts, more experience, healthier finances, etc.

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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

For instance, Brant Cooper will lead you through applying Lean Startup in HR, IT and finance teams. For example, in an enterprise context, moving to continuous delivery can mean making significant architectural changes and changing the culture of development, testing, and operations teams.

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What does a CTO do?

www.lanceglasser.com

Finance and budgeting. Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The greatest leverage is when the project is in its earliest phases, when we are deciding on architectures in the context of market requirements and when technology choices are being made. Metrics for cyclical businesses.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Eric, Is this post about Architecture? Good luck, engineering manager.