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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

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. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be. Apr 27 2010.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said.

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8 ways to incorporate customer feedback into your startup’s strategy

The Next Web

And while there’s lots of talk right now about leveraging data to make smarter business decisions, finding a way to use customer data to make better business and product choices can be tough. Support-driven development means everyone in the company does support in some form or fashion. Chad Halvorson , When I Work.

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4 Things Entrepreneurs Should Ignore From the Steve Jobs Formula

ReadWriteStart

Every product is built in isolation and while the details of Apple's product development process are not that "open" either from what I've heard often engineers don't even have a full picture of the product they are building. Inversely, Apple products are also notoriously closed. Don't Be Secretive.

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Hard lessons lead to success – the story of RealLead

Up and Running

That’s when Chad Barczak and Jeff Kast came along and asked if she’d like to join them in starting RealLead , a mobile marketing lead capture tool and lead marketplace for buying and selling real estate leads. They were able to recruit a top-notch programmer, who got their core mobile product developed quickly.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

This also literally can’t catch every problem, because your test sandboxes or test clusters will never be exactly like the production system. But I will tell you not to have too little or too much, because those definitely ruin the food or product. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Understand growth accounting – new, resurrected vs churned = net growth (can also look at this at feature level, not only product). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1.

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