Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. And to be honest, VC’s in this bubble really didn’t care.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden.

Advisory Board 240

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

In today’s dynamic market, simply having a good product or service isn’t enough. This article will explore some effective strategies for achieving business growth, covering essential aspects from understanding your market to enhancing customer experience. Growth is not a one-time effort but a continuous journey.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry. There’s the Alfred P. auto market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden.

Advisory Board 232

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a marketing growth strategy to increase your market penetration, market share, and revenue. It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Product development. And fail fast.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

However, as your business grows, managing inventory, shipping, and customer service becomes increasingly complex. In this article, we will explore the benefits of eBay fulfilment through a 3PL provider, a service designed to streamline your order management needs and optimise your eBay business.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Per the same Randstad article, international tech companies and investors consider Canada as a place to do business. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Per an Industry West Magazine article , the tech sector in the province accounts for 2.5%

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars. In most cases, they hit the jackpot when their products are sold for millions. Product development. We hope you liked this article on the four startup stages.

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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.” Product vs. Growth? But what about between growth and product?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This article aims to provide essential tips that will help budding entrepreneurs navigate the complex yet exciting world of business. With the availability of resources like a bachelor of business management online , learning has become more accessible than ever.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. Being a manager didnt sound fun - deep down, who really wants to be held accountable for other peoples actions? So I wound up learning the discipline of managing other people.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. In addition to managing our firm, I have the privilege of teaching a course in entrepreneurship.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2010

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden.

Advisory Board 125

Advisory Board Startup Forecast Early Stage 125

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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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. In a way, you can think of BD as “sales when you don’t know what the product is yet.”

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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 ). ” Deeper Data Skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products. You need to give them advance notice of your product development or better yet let them help influence your direction. You need to give them “back stage&# passes to your company.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. I posted this as a contributed article on Techcrunch.

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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. I used to be one of them.

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

In my last article I discussed the role of the leader of the product organization. Your company needs the strongest product team possible, and if you don’t develop your team and provide growth opportunities, there are other companies that will. Is he fully utilizing his project manager/ScrumMaster?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Each article will give you: A brief definition of the metric. It’s important to track this metric so that you can manage your cash flow. After all, if you can’t manage your debts, you could risk defaulting. Accounts receivable is money that is owed to you by your customers for products or services that you’ve sold.

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Metrics Burn Rate .Net Churn Rate 60

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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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

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. When we work on a product in small increments, we accelerate feedback to each participant who works on the product.

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SVPG

JANUARY 23, 2012

Occasionally in my work with technology product teams around the world, I run into product managers that are still practicing the role as it used to be defined back in the PC era of technology. Perhaps the old role has been institutionalized in a formal corporate product development process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

Management and Leadership. Whether you’re a student or a working professional, these books can help you hone the essential management and leadership skills you’ll need to work as an executive or business owner. Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun. Think you know what it takes to be a great manager?

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

We all deal with certain truths about building technology products, and I find that certain quotes resonate strongly with people and help them internalize important concepts or ideas. For this article, I thought I'd share my current list of favorites. Tracking down the original author of these types of quotes is hard.

Silicon Valley 69

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. We could see it in our analytics clear as day—each week we saw a flood of users come back to the site to read the articles. Swimming with Sharks. Growth teams are like those sharks.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For many years I’ve subscribed to the idea that in a product organization, there are essentially two types of contributors: makers and managers. Makers design and build the products we love, so most people understand the critical contribution. View Article.

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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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Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 131

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2019

But if you’ve managed to make some income with your side hustle, you could be ready to step up. Whether you are intending to transform your side business to a full time one or keep it aside, here are some tips on scaling it up: Time Management is Essential. The Year of the Pig is upon us and symbolizes luck, wealth and good fortune.

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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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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 269

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Managing Expectations When Blogging. The key point I passed on was to manage the expectations of your readers. Early in my blogging I stuck to one article a day and I had no problems doing so because I had so much to write from all my previous experiences, and the time to write it. Disappointment was the result.

Management 111

Management Stock Email Operations 111

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

The startup was launching its product there, and as part of the promotion plan, we were to go into bars in the evenings and sign people up to use their service. The manager of the promotion knew me from having worked on another promotion at the previous year’s SXSW festival for State Farm, and she liked my work. How did I get the gig?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Business advisors, experienced entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors generally agree that you should develop a business plan before you start a business. However, not all startups are that simple.

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