crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. Showscase your products and services. You’re selling a product or service. Make sure that you clearly showcase that product or service on your homepage.

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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In Part 1 of this blog series, I presented a rather dysfunctional conversation going on between software consultants and you, their client. I explained what consultants mean when they use the word “productivity,” why it gets convoluted, and how understanding this can lead you to making better choices for your company. Number of Users.

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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. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Keep in mind that people are generally impatient when browsing websites and slow load times do impact conversions (getting people to buy your products or services). Save the music for your restaurant.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

And making sales early on when a product is not nearly what it will be one day is especially hard. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. If I did not have the background in sales, we would not have made it. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Although I know many brilliant software engineers who worked unexpected miracles with Web Services, implementation by the common corporate programmer was stodgy in every case I heard about.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions. In the first, you get a very clear idea of what the product is, what the candidate’s contribution was in the context of the product, and why that contribution matters. The results.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. And we took the classic commercial tech approach of building minimal viable products: Get something that will work good enough. Minimal Viable Products. We started with a cross-functional team.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The blockchain and Arcadeum architecture we’re developing enables the future of gaming, where players benefit from truly owning their digital items, privacy, provable fairness, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. To create, to express and to feel connected through our creations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Some of them derived from oil, some of them derived from other natural products. So, if you think of building a skyscraper starting from really simple architectural materials. Alpha Lee : I think pharma, there's a lot of worry about pharma losing productivity. These are very small, simple building blocks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Showscase your products and services. You’re selling a product or service. Make sure that you clearly showcase that product or service on your homepage. You can have a great site design, but if your product photos look terrible, your prospective customers will think twice about buying your products.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Audio and Video Production. Architecture Services. The talent pool includes app developers, UX/UI designers, full-stack developers, and software engineers. Article and Blog Writing. Photography. Customer Service. Social Media Coordinator and Community Manager. Logo Design and Illustration. Data Entry Jobs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

After all, your customers ultimately will want to learn more about your company’s products and services, and a dedicated website will help them do so. Showscase your products and services. You’re selling a product or service. Make sure that you clearly showcase that product or service on your homepage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

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. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. I have found this quite rare in engineers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

She will likely produce a better finished product than I can. Drip outsourcing has become invaluable to my productivity. This ties back into a topic I’ve spoken about previously: when it comes to your product should you build it, buy it or hire it out? Outsource your product architecture?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers. You, a creative guy?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. One product at a time wasn’t going to change the trajectory of the DOD. Nand Mulchandani.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Insightful. Thanks much.

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