Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself. Use social media for early marketing.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The first guide we are releasing is around product. Creating a successful company can hinge on whether or not you build a product that people want. This guide will help you figure out how to navigate building a product people will love prior to hiring a full time PM, and figuring out when the right time to bring someone on is.

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Small Business Force

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Most companies develop products that they either "think" their customers or market need or they let their ego believe that they "know" what their customers want because they, themselves, would use their product. Few entrepreneurs or small business owners involve their customers in the product development process.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Install Productive Development Tools. Next, you can integrate a reliable set of development tools to amplify your workforce’s capabilities. There are plenty of effective programming tools that support your developers. Market Your Software Product. In fact, many of these modules are available to your team for free.

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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?

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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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. Were startups failing because of product failures or was there some other failure mode? I was glad to find your blog and look forward to reading it. familiar with Customer Development you should be. What was the difference here?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself. Use social media for early marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Product roadmaps are essential for coordinating product development. Learn everything you need to know about creating and using a product roadmap.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2020

When creating a software program, you first need to decide what you want from your product. You can then mention these apps to the developers, thereby giving them an idea of what you want. Finding Developers. Once you know what you want, the next step is to find developers that’ll help you make the product.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. In addition, if you plan to expand your product lines in the future, a broad name will make it easier to include different products under that umbrella.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. They recorded it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself. Use social media for early marketing.

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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. For the wrong reasons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2015

Let’s examine a few of the ways retailers perform Spring Cleaning, preparing their brands and product lines for the coming weeks and months: 1. Adjust product offerings. In addition to the ads and sales, administrators should also review the products featured on their site. Remove outdated promotional offerings.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. I discovered my product was a “nice to have,” not a “must have,” and we shut the company down a year a later. ————-. All a startup has are mere hypotheses,” and. “in

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. . My favorite part is how many different hats I wear. I’ve learned and grown more as a leader than I ever could have imagined.

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deal architect

MARCH 17, 2019

Steve Miranda, EVP, Applications Product Development at Oracle briefed analysts about this week's co-located Modern Business Experience (MBX) and Modern Customer Experience (MCX) in Las Vegas. He also blogged about it: "we are bringing together marketing, sales, and service with.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The classic lifespan of successful products is a story in four parts: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline. How this story plays out has a lot to do with the type of product and how it’s improved over time, if at all. In this article, we’ll look at the different stages of the product lifecycle through the lens of marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

New product development business concept on device screen. Before you can start determining the tax treatment for your website development costs, you need to determine what you use your website for. Does it go under profit and loss and count as an expense? Or does it go on the balance sheet and count as an asset?

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. Rethinking the Standard Fundraising Deck “I’d make it crystal clear what your product actually does. VCs sure do love writing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself. Use social media for early marketing.

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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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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. In addition, if you plan to expand your product lines in the future, a broad name will make it easier to include different products under that umbrella.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

With that said, I thought it would be great to share Sin-Mei’s insight and wisdom with our blog community. To help us perform functional testing without mock objects, we maintain a seed database that reflects the database schema and contains the data definitions that we would expect in production. Value to customers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. You’re right on about the urls though: I wrote a blog post about this a few months ago and used you guys as an example: [link]. Apr 27 2010.

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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. Some of its ideas appear contradictory (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

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. You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

." In this time of great technological innovation, no matter how cool or dazzling a new product might be, at the end of the day, if ain’t solving a customer problem or addressing a customer need, nobody is buying it! As an advisor, mentor and sometimes angel investor, I get to see a lot of new products.

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Board Effect

JULY 10, 2023

Download our Guide to Board Effectiveness to identify areas of improvement and apply best practices for a more effective, productive and successful board. ———————————————————————————————– Technology Facilitates Data Processing and Analytics When boards have excellent data, they find many valuable purposes for it.

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