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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development.

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5 Financial Concepts Every Startup Founder Should Know

The Startup Magazine

Most financial valuation formulas value an asset by discounting the asset using the cost of capital (interest rate) to the present day. If, instead of paying dividends to shareholders, money reinvested in the right opportunities can reap enormous rewards down the line. Compared to Accounting, Finance is ruthlessly forward looking.

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How To See The Distinction Between Business Objectives And Business Priorities

YoungUpstarts

To put a finer point on it, we have found that when you adhere to the following three demand-based priorities companies can drive growth while saving 20% or more of total costscosts that are often completely overlooked through traditional cost-savings mechanisms. Complexity in the system explodes, as do costs.

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How to Take Your Business to the Next Level

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Cut Unnecessary Costs. Wasteful costs and payments are a significant drain on any business, and it could be holding you back from taking the next step and reaching another level of success. In doing so, you can repurpose these funds towards your marketing efforts, product development, and other options.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

These changes pay increasing dividends, because each improvement now direclty frees up somebody in QA at the same time as reducing the total time of the certification step. Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Interesting post. February 25, 2009 8:12 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

But when executed right, it pays dividends. In today’s market ( 8,000 martech products alone ), it’s easier to attract the right customer with material they value than it is to chase down and convert a prospect who isn’t ready to buy. You’ve completed customer research for your product development and positioning strategy.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

"We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. Development time is typically no more than two to three weeks, and it generally takes just a few orders to cover development costs. Read the rest. Read the rest.