The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Before we delve into the importance of concept design to the product design and development process of businesses, it is imperative that we define it first. You may think of it like this: if your product idea is your Eureka or light bulb moment, your concept design is the process of exploring that light bulb further.

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Product Development Design Developer Product 62

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture. million to develop.”.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC) , that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. Immigration: Continuing on the rise.

Architecture 258

Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 258

Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

Your web/mobile idea needs to be transformed into a working product/service. A CTO is needed to develop a technology plan to make this happen. Furthermore, your CTO will be able to hire a development team that can build out your idea in appropriate phases. Development Plan (Timelines/Costs/Budgets). Wireframes.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. The last three months have been pleasantly insane.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

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. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

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. He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Jonathan Irwin will lead a workshop on advanced interview skills , including the different kinds of customer interviews, how to develop questions, and how to apply the answers to an actual decision around a product. By the end of his workshop, you will know how to apply innovation accounting to truly track the progress of your product.

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Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

THE SPEAKERS MELANIE DISALVO Melanie DiSalvo began her fashion career in product development after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Textile Development and Marketing program. What started as an alternative to leather, have become its own product. in Mechanical Engineering (Product Design) and a B.A.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technology Philippines Silicon Valley 48

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Markets with Customer/Market Risk are those where the unknown is whether customers will adopt the product. is whether there is a customer and market for the product as spec’d. These are markets where it may take 5 or even 10 years to get a product out of the lab and into production. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0

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Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 144

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.

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Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC), that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. Education: More students and different classes.

Architecture 209

Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 209

www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? The minimum viable product. Several years ago someone at Apple created the option for OS-X to run on the x86 architecture (supplied by Intel and AMD).

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Technical Review Architecture 40

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening. Thanks to Richard Mews, Sell With Richard ! #14- 14- The Farmstand. Photo Credit: Amrita Saigal.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

– born CEOs and heads of product development at successful companies, and learned that the average age of successful founders was 39. In the article ” The Case for Old Entrepreneurs ”, Stanford professor and Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa shared a 2008 study researching the backgrounds of nearly 700 U.S.

Entrepreneur 123

Entrepreneur SBA Architecture Washington 123

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

One of the topics that raised heated debate was whether I had conflated technical design with product design , because I made the admittedly counter-intuitive claim that sometimes good technical design actually leads to increased technical debt. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Product or Service Features Are Rarely A Competitive Advantage – [link]. Product or Service Features Are Rarely A Competitive Advantage – [link]. Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices – [link]. Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The art team would often be involved in the specification phase of a new feature, since they were responsible for the look-and-feel of the product. When the art team would review the final product, they were inevitably outraged – it deviated from the spec in ways they considered major.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Software Review 164

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Having the latest and best possible data available on marketing, sales and CSR fronts can help lead to less waste through better pipeline management in production. A well-planned system integration architecture and toolkit are vital to the success of your business.

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Software eCommerce Architecture Cash Position 189

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. I agree with the less is more product development approach, but for a different reason.

Product Development 68

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 68

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC), that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. Education: More students and different classes.

Architecture 144

Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 144

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

He turned his PhD thesis into a killer product, got it funded and now was CEO of a company of 30. It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. We’re building the wrong product!” And the rule was we weren’t changing anything about the product architecture until Ben and I agreed.

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Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 316

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Most customers of most products hate new releases. Thats a perfectly reasonable reaction, given that most releases of most products are bad news. Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better.

Continuous Deployment 122

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Metrics 122

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. You can turn your entire application infrastructure investment into a pay-as-you-go variable cost, and bring new products to market at speeds an order of magnitude faster than just 10 years ago. yeah, its awesome.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Free FoundersCard membership, 24/7 online support through forums, discounts on products and services, offline events, the assistance of an editorial team to aid in the creation and dissemination of content for the purposes of brand building and media opportunities, and more. Thanks to Michael Dodd, Planning hub ! #11-

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Community Architecture Entrepreneur Networking 96

femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. So we get attached to our team and product, and its hard to forsake that for another opportunity that we’re unsure of. When to start recruiting?

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Engineer Software Review Startup Technical Review 41

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Relational architecture (a collection of data organized as a set of formally described tables) in the first place—all new stuff, and technically compelling.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review Database 333

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 18, 2010

#1: In the middle of product development, CEO rewrites the specs (no doubt verbally), overruling the product managers and the engineers, and forces mid-stream changes in code architecture. #2: 2: In order to get to market sooner, the CEO orders short-cuts on QA.

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Engineer Poland Sweden Architecture 123

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Assurance of Quality The testing stage of the software product development process is vital. ZTA, or zero-trust architecture ZTA models differ from standard cyber security models, which depend on ongoing verification. It functions by causing the system to halt any strange or questionable transactions.

Artificial Inteligence 88

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Web API 88

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

This condition makes it much easier for teams to innovate, experiment, and achieve sustained productivity. One large source of waste in development is “double-checking.&# One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production. Continuous deployment also acts as a speed regulator.

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Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Up and Running

AUGUST 4, 2016

This publication puts the spotlight on commercial interior design and architecture, an angle most other sites don’t take. Here you’ll find articles on outstanding workplaces, information and coverage of commercial interior products and product development trends, and in-depth stories from people in the know.

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United States Architecture America Lean 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2010

million from the State of Texas through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) for the development of its module?integrated Timing of SolarBridge’s product launch could not be better; according to IMS Research, the global PV inverter market is projected to grow at a double?digit integrated microinverter and management system.

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Texas Architecture Austin Product Development 54