Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 21, 2021
Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Customer retention.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2013
Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Customer retention.
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ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 12, 2022
As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. Hence it is critical to have a solid business plan before you start.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 15, 2010
Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Customer retention.
Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2015
Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. It’s a really big idea because what you build needs to match the hypothesis you want to test.
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development. The product management process assumes that product/market fit is known, and the products can get spec’d and then implemented in a linear fashion. StageGate Process.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. They also observe who is pulling his or her weight and who is not.
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