Remove Cloud Remove Product Development Remove Revenue Remove Software Development
article thumbnail

10 Ways A Business Owner Can Save Money

YoungUpstarts

For instance, voice over internet protocol (VoIP) gives companies seemingly unlimited voice, data, and video capabilities in a simplified cloud-based platform and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional phone system. Utilize Cloud Technology. Cloud platforms are now everywhere. They’re more affordable than ever before.

Cloud 113
article thumbnail

How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Steve Blank

There’s nothing more wasteful than having an Innovation Outpost reporting on disruption heading for the company’s core business (autonomous vehicles, machine learning, Virtual Reality, Cloud, Internet of Things, et al.) Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. What solution are we productizing ?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking. No more, no less.

Lean 168
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. If a feature worked, wed keep it.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Still, theyre not really hitting it out of the park, because their product isnt growing new users as fast as theyd like, and they arent making any money from the current users. Heres a company I met with recently. Great post, Eric.

article thumbnail

How to Avoid the Three Startup Danger Points

Software By Rob

They thought people would flock to their idea, fumbling for their credit cards the moment they heard someone had developed a re-tweeting cloud app for Facebook fan pages. The bottom line here is to take your launch seriously, as seriously as you’ve taken your product development. Ask any startup founder.

article thumbnail

The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Most executives, especially in startups, dont have the courage to hold their teams to a high standard for new products or features. Not even if its generating revenue. The only efforts a new product team should be expending are those that lead to validated learning about customers. Will start to pay attention. Great post Eric.