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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2013
Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. I challenge any startup to show me they have avoided all of these: One of the founders isn’t delivering. The product is behind schedule.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.
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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?
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 24, 2012
Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. I challenge any startup to show me they have avoided all of these: One of the founders isn’t delivering. The product is behind schedule.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 6, 2011
Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. I challenge any startup to show me they have avoided all of these: One of the founders isn’t delivering. The product is behind schedule.
Berkonomics
AUGUST 10, 2017
Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 11, 2010
Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. I challenge any startup to show me they have avoided all of these: One of the founders isn’t delivering. The product is behind schedule.
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