Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. In the end, exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension.
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Customer Development. AskAnything.VC
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 19, 2009
Almost all of it is in one giant fixed-cost bucket: salaries. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 30, 2008
Voluntary salary reduction program. Ive also used the voluntary salary reduction tool - its particularly useful as a way to get passionate employees who dont have a lot of personal expenses to buy into the mission of the company at a deep level. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Edwin: There are a million others. It’s bundled in different groups.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status.
viniciusvacanti.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
We thought that would give us enough credibility to bring someone on board and enough money to even compete, at least in the short term, with some of the other salaries. I pick my cofounder's brain almost daily about the inner workings of our product, so that I can be better informed about the tech side of things.
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