The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Once you have narrowed down a list of potential employees, take the time to conduct interviews, run background checks, and examine their U.S Surely, hiring your first employees is key to launch your business in 2021. Surely, hiring your first employees is key to launch your business in 2021. Install Productive Development Tools.

Software Developers 136

Software Developers Software Development Software Developer 136

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

Once cynicism gets a foothold in your culture, it spreads — just like an ill-advised tweet or blog post. It’s an expression of the uncertainty that comes from working in an environment where ethics are lax, employees don’t feel valued, and information is withheld. Can employees speak up without censure?

Employee 189

Employee Balance Sheet Leadership Chicago 189

YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

Once cynicism gets a foothold in your culture, it spreads — just like an ill-advised tweet or blog post. It’s an expression of the uncertainty that comes from working in an environment where ethics are lax, employees don’t feel valued, and information is withheld. Can employees speak up without censure?

Employee 160

Employee Leadership Balance Sheet Chicago 160

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . That in itself is quite a challenge.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

But not anal if one founder who shares equity graciously with early employees who are treated as “co-founders” My idea startup team is heaving on tech personnel but also has strong product management. Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use.

Cofounder 388

Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 388

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

These include preparing and launching one’s business/product, overcoming resistance, using push/pull technology, and managing stakeholders (employees and bosses). Each chapter is written like an assembly of different blog posts on management and entrepreneurial topics.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Japan Employee Management 145

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Create ten new sales-focused blogs in four months. Creating SMART goals gives your startup a sense of direction to develop your strategy, and more importantly, see if your efforts are working to achieve your goals. In many startups, employees wear several hats to make sure everything gets done.

Developer 159

Developer Marketing Social Media Startup 159

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. Once reformatted for usage on other platforms, video content can also be used to create blog content. Photo Credit: George Beatty.

Software Review 120

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 120

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee – crowdspring.co/1s051td. Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. Activate or Die: 10+ Ways You Can Improve Your User Activation for SaaS – Part 2 | 500 Startups Blog – crowdspring.co/1rgMYgu.

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews. To be a leader, you have to be willing to be a public figure , and display the right attributes.

Stealth 362

Stealth Leadership Viral Social Media 362

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I fell in love with the blogging community, traveling, and cooking (plus eating) new foods and flavors. My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries. Launching a recipe website can cost as little as $150 if you can utilize your phone as a camera to start.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 144

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Believably promote your product.

Customer 168

Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. independently come to launch very similar products/services. without any knowledge of the other’s activities?—?independently

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Startup Cofounder Stealth 120

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. And engaging customers in such ways is generally much less expensive than hiring costly employees or agencies.

Customer 154

Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Successful collaboration between a company’s business development and product development requires mutual understanding and purpose. At Red Branch, we stress that employees’ skills have distinct market values. Explain to employees where they will be if it is successful. Matt Ehrlichman , Porch.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Development Team Review Developer Agile 129

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Create ten new sales-focused blogs in four months. Creating SMART goals gives your startup a sense of direction to develop your strategy, and more importantly, see if your efforts are working to achieve your goals. In many startups, employees wear several hats to make sure everything gets done.

Developer 78

Developer Marketing Social Media Startup 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. Get your company talked about in the blogs and newsletters they read. Above all, don’t panic or demoralize your employees. You need at least a 5x return to generate rewards for investors and employee stock options. ——-.

Liquidity Event 120

Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Venture Capital 120

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Think about it: Companies hire people who come from outside the buyer’s world and don’t share his interests — employees, agencies, consultants, and the like — and expect them to persuade buyers to hand over their money. Yeah, right! One is known as ‘Mr. Help customers build social capital.

Marketing 234

Marketing Software Review Technical Review Social Network 234

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In a recent blog post, Kanbanize CEO, Dimitar Karaivanov, effectively summarizes the spirit of kanban: “One of the main principles … is the goal of eliminating bottlenecks by imposing realistic limits on how much work is in progress, how much work is requested, and how much work is held off on the back burner.

SCRUM 60

SCRUM Japan China Agile 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Or you could work with the writer to create a blog, see if it can attract a readership, and then test whether those readers will pre-order a book—which you can do before you’ve put ten seconds of effort into creating a print volume. You can give advice about applying Lean Startup ideas to business areas other than product development.

Lean 165

Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

Agile 111

Agile Customer Development Developer San Francisco 111

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

Customer Development 126

Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Product development. Now that you have a refined product idea and a team that can turn this idea into reality, the product development stage will start. Initial product development usually consists of prototyping and MVP. Prototyping usually means the initial working draft of the product idea.

Startup 113

Startup Technical Cofounder Merger Early Stage 113

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. For Hologram this meant being heads down primarily focused on product development in early years, and then only scaling sales and marketing as the market opportunity across IoT really blossomed.

Chicago 177

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. As we continue to work from home, it has become an essential tool for remote employees. Tesla’s technology is not only used by Tesla, it is also used by other car manufacturers like Toyota, Daimler, and Mercedes-Benz.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. Connect (off)line?

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It must cross boundaries, working cooperatively with other divisions in your business such as sales, marketing, social media, PR, product development, and the like. A successful reference program needs significant resources and a strong rollout that involves the entire company. Cheaping out” on resources.

Programming 145

Programming Customer Social Media Advisory Board 145

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

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. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

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. A book I am looking forward to read after reading you blog. This is a common mistake.

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product marketers own a variety of marketing responsibilities, which can be roughly divided into two broad categories: pre-launch and post-launch. During product development and before launch, product marketing responsibilities revolve around the GTM strategy, positioning, and developing messaging. Image Source.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110