Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Business commercialization.

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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.

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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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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to keep it from being defined as a hobby by investors, and assure some financial return. Develop your business plan. Product development process.

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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. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Big data is a prominent subject for many businesses around the world, and for those of you who operate entirely online enterprises, studying statistics and numbers is perhaps even more important, and, can be convenient using online business education. Working with Social Media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. At the same time, he was always pushing the limits of our business relationship with new ideas. Product development. But I know some very good ones built on great follow-up with incremental improvements to existing products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. Most people think they can do product design.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Even as their teams grow, entrepreneurs often feel that they must tend to every aspect of the business, including low-level tasks that distract from revenue-generating activity. Wearing Your Many Hats With Style.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To that end, we’ve created this checklist to go over the essential tasks you’ll need to complete during your first year of business. Follow their expert advice to ensure that your first year in business is as successful as possible. Follow their expert advice to ensure that your first year in business is as successful as possible.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Your business numbers and KPI’s (key performance indicators) should be available at your fingertips. You can track your most important financials in Excel spreadsheets, but using a business dashboard tool that integrates with your accounting software can make it easier and help you avoid doing double data entry.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. How to Write a Business Plan in Under an Hour.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I’ve spent a lot of years as theoretically being my own boss, including more than 10 years as sole proprietor business planning consultant, working on my own with clients; and more than 10 years building a company, as founder and owner, working with employees. We need to get the software done, tested, and published.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2010

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Schramm, author of “ Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do “ If I asked you to describe the prototypical successful entrepreneur, you may share a story mythologized in our culture of a brilliant young man with an idea so good and so disruptive that he just can’t waste any time finishing college.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2020

Along the way, we found out that preparation, real expectations, inner motivation, and hard work are the most important things to get straight before you even start developing a startup. Here are some of the most crucial practices to incorporate in your business plan before you start developing a product or a service.

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Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

———– Whether your venture is a new pizza parlor or the hottest new software product, beware: These nine flawed assumptions are toxic. These founders specify, design, and build a fully featured product using classic product development methods without ever leaving their building.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2018

Creating a Business Plan. Don’t create your business plan entirely from scratch. Once you’re in, huddle with mentors to refine your plan. Product Development. You can save on the back end by equipping them with cloud-based accounting software and outsourcing tax prep to a reputable business CPA.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as they do, sometimes even unknowingly that beautiful dream of a business exit and financial windfall recedes depressingly into the sunset. Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. Putting all of this out there and SO many good things come back to us.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2013

But before you can launch a high-growth company, you’ll need to find the right business plan and create a culture of success. My team and I built our company, Turning Technologies, into the world’s largest audience response software enterprise using this principle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. See Also Bplans Small Business Loan Finder. See Also 5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

In this article, I’ll cover: What a persona is and how a business can use one. How to create a persona for your business. Success in marketing and product development comes from a deep understanding of your target customer. But, what if your business is solving a problem that you don’t have?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

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. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 4, 2016

Here you’ll find articles on outstanding workplaces, information and coverage of commercial interior products and product development trends, and in-depth stories from people in the know. Construction Enquirer. It may be a British-run online magazine, but it’s one that people rave about. Procore’s Continuing Education Site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

You know, could you look at my business plan? See if the business model works, all these questions. But if you are going to have somebody who's developing a product, developing a new technology, designing, or going out into marketing and figuring out new ways to market, you really need a thinker.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) You take your product vision and get out of your building to turn your hypothesis into facts. Waterfall, Agile, Lean?

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www.tangosource.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Executing the non-technical parts of your business plan is a must, but often this translates to providing funding for enough runway for V1 and possibly a major pivot afterwards. re golden. If needed, bring cash Just like the technical co-founder who is putting tons of hours in, you need to have skin in the game. More from the blog.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2021

As a new entrant, or established business looking to grow, instead of attempting to claim current enterprise customers from your competitors, you can develop another market segment. You may see an opportunity to provide a lighter version of your software to smaller businesses. Launch a new product or service.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

We were lucky to learn about Customer Development early on in the life of our startup. It made more sense than our 60 page business plan predicated on a B-school class and a supernatural ability to predict the future. More importantly, we’d witnessed Customer Development’s massive success at another local startup.

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Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2012

“Finding the caliber of software programmers we needed early in the startup process” wasn’t easy, Cummings noted. They were able to recruit a top-notch programmer, who got their core mobile product developed quickly. We didn’t even start building the ship until we had our compass fine-tuned. .”

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. See Also: One Easy Trick to Get Your Business Plan Done in Under an Hour. Thankfully, there’s a fast and affordable way to do so.

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