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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs. This includes the design, development, launch, and enhancement of the SaaS application. .

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Unlocking Success: Empowering Community Banks with Governance Management Software

Board Effect

How Governance Management Software Facilitates Data Governance High-quality, collective data can help community bank boards work toward establishing policies and procedures that lead to the best outcomes for their mission. Data also influences changes to workflow, which is why quality data is essential for decision-makers.

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Why You Should Be Doing Product Discovery

YoungUpstarts

Before rushing to build your concept to push out to consumers, it’s important to first undertake product discovery. Product discovery is the purpose of identifying the smallest amount of software needed to determine market value. Notably, this occurs prior to building the Minimum Viable Product , or ‘MVP’.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

From early time-sharing systems on rented mainframe terminals to recent public cloud multichannel solutions, I’ve observed that the real leverage points and challenges are the people, not the technology. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

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Understanding the Regulatory Process throughout your next Hardware Product Design

The Startup Magazine

Businesses have a lot to think about when they have a new product idea and one missed step in the product development lifecycle can significantly impact business success. As an example, by the end of the development up to 80 documents are required to be submitted for FDA approval of a class 1 or 2 medical device.

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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale. While traditional software monopolies needed to be “all things to all people,” cloud start-ups can focus on one area and do it extremely well. Final thoughts.