ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2010

It’s not a disease, but it can kill your startup You can find a more complete discussion of Founder’s Syndrome on Wikipedia , but here are a few of the “symptoms” I observed in the Founder and CEO in this case: Reacts defensively and talks constantly. In the beginning, we all found this founder to be dynamic, driven, and decisive.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

We are thus more likely to befriend those people, we are more likely to develop strong ties to them, and even eventually to marry one of those people. [1] Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

We are thus more likely to befriend those people, we are more likely to develop strong ties to them, and even eventually to marry one of those people. [1] Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I wrote an article for American Express Open Forum outlining the 7 Advantages of an Old Entrepreneur. 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. Old Entrepreneurs Rule. Because I’m from Jersey.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? Image Source. Image source.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Thor Ernstsson, Founder of Alpha UX ; previously, founder of Casual Corp , a venture studio, said, “Fundamentally and theoretically, this model works; practically and actually, it didn’t at all. […] The most important thing to consider is that launching a startup is usually a personal endeavor. Others think the model can work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. While reading this article Ive been thinking about my role as "CTO". Especially w.r.t.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). AI and automatic optimization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “founder’s syndrome.” It’s not a disease, but it can kill your startup.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Our business name is a product of an online naming contest back when we were still starting. #9- A merger of two companies. Photo Credit: Roy Morejon. 10- From a naming contest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2013

Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “Founder’s Syndrome.” It’s not a disease, but it can kill your startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. What other questions would you ask a brand-new startup about its product development practices? Please leave feedback!)

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” If this is the first article you’ve read on growth marketing, you may be disillusioned.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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www.tangosource.com

MARCH 8, 2012

You are here: Blog > Finding a technical co-founder: Youâ??re Finding a technical co-founder: Youâ??re re trying to create a new product as a non technical person, it might seem easy at first, until you start looking for real technical partners. As a potential technical co-founder, thereâ??s re doing it wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2012

Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “Founder’s Syndrome.” It’s not a disease, but it can kill your startup.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

With the insistence the idea had on my mind, I had actually started on paper at home because I remembered reading an article online where David Heinemeier Hannson of 37 Signals (Now Basecamp) recommended that as the first step to building any tech product. In 3 days, my articles of incorporation as a Delaware C-Corp came by email.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. Unlike previous cross-posting Ive done for blogs, where a lot of the discussion happens here, Id like to ask you to take a minute and click through to read the full article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2011

Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “Founder’s Syndrome.” It’s not a disease, but it can kill your startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.)

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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. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2015

Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “founder’s syndrome.” It’s not a disease, but it can kill your startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

You want people who have different perspectives on the company and should include people from sales, marketing, product development, engineering, etc. Importantly, while you should include others, company leaders and founders should be deeply involved in a SWOT analysis as they create the overall vision for the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

We call growth hacking the process of figuring out this extremely complex puzzle of selling a product better and faster than anyone else. In this article, I’ll go through the steps and the strategy we followed to achieve this and successfully solve this maze. 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

I was formerly Founder/CEO of a domain name investment bank , and still own about a hundred domain names personally. When deciding on the purchase of an expensive domain, startup teams should first consider whether the money might be better spent on other areas such as product development, customer acquisition, or hiring new talent. .

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Thanks for writing this article. Great post Eric!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2020

The founders of Hewlett Packard. He used the name in the title of his newspaper article at the Electronic News in January 1971. But if you’re lucky and stumble upon the product development engineering team, you can expect around $173,570 every year. You’re sensing a pattern here. Harley Davidson? The “starters”?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 12, 2017

Startup founders have several full time jobs, and many push off thinking about marketing for as long as possible to focus on their other vital functions. In the struggle to prioritize focus, startup founders often make the mistake of thinking marketing can wait, or worse, that inbound marketing only works for big, established companies.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. Airbnb’s public S-1 dropped Monday afternoon. Source: Airbnb S-1. Airbnb’s Secret Sauce.

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