Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

Customers are the lifeblood of every business. What used to be easy when you had one employee and two customers is more difficult when you employ five people and have 25 customers. For example, this is the time a smart business owner absolutely must double-down on great customer service. Why a CRM?

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

That’s why optimizers conduct quality assurance on sites, landing pages , test treatments, email campaigns, you name it—to make sure they work the way they’re supposed to. But more than that, they’re BFFs because both teams can have a symbiotic relationship. You can also use custom reports to keep an eye on your data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do you really need that full-time assistant, regular bookkeeper, and big-name attorney? Investors assume it will only go up with more funding.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

That’s why optimizers conduct quality assurance on sites, landing pages, test treatments, email campaigns, you name it… to make sure they work the way they’re supposed to. But more than that, they’re BFFs because both teams can have a symbiotic relationship. via Develop With Purpose). There is a difference.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

To name a few: Users’ throats got sore after a while, loud working environments made speech-to-text unappealing, and lack of privacy would be an issue for many would-be users. I thought that something this clever and unique deserved its own name so that it would not be conflated with traditional prototypes. Another success.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling. This is a full time job.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. Positioned as an expert mobile development team, Applabz turns conceptual ideas into tangible, cutting-edge mobile solutions. Focus on Customer Satisfaction Word of mouth travels fast.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Great way to get your business represented online and bring in new customers. If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name. We like listening to our customers and seeing what they do. Jonathan: Now why is that?

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SBA Technical Review Software Review Small Business 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. Account managers can tier customers. It’s not cheap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. I’ve often asked myself why intrapreneurs like Don Estridge and peers from CDC, Burroughs, UNIVAC, and Wang are not household names today. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers. Hes working harder than ever, and so is his team. But they are pushing for the things that matter to customers - features. So they insist on having the final say on when a feature is "done" enough to show to customers. Thats a bug.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

2: Tags go last (customers come first :). # Best practice is to run this nice little program, or your own equivalent, once a week and send a report to your web development team with a list of pages missing the tags. # 2: Tags go last (customers come first :). 3: Tags should be inline. # 7: Redirects, be aware of them. #

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Technical Review Analytics Web Software Review 93

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2023

He emphasizes the importance of focusing on business growth, making an impact, and connecting with customers rather than getting caught up in content creation and personal branding. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You need to contact your customers, you need to sell stuff. Like this show? Right, right.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Marcel Petitpas (01:17): I, you know, you didn't even ask me how to pronounce my last name, which is the mistake most hosts make. John Jantsch (01:30): Well as somebody whose last name, uh, ends with five consonants, you know, I'm very, very aware of people's last names.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Between the long traditions of forum and chat software and the rapidly growing areas of social networking services, you can build a significant community online without much in the way of hardcore development. Ultimately being a developer is not an essential criterion of founding an online startup. But it sure does seem to help!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? The good news: There are good answers to these questions! Now Adriana has an epiphany?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to. We were family.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

It moves at a rapid clip, each argument backed up with the relevant math and equations: marginal profit , Littles law , Markov processes , probability theory , you name it. Its goal is to help us recognize that every artifact of our product development process is really just a proxy variable. Wow, great review!

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). The mobile custom report collects three key areas of analysis. What do you learn from this tab?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. Custom Segments are built by clicking on the red +New Segment button at the top of the Segments menu. These fully customized segments are built in one of two ways: as a conditional filter, or a conditional filter involving steps.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Peter: You might want a manager who then takes care of, let’s say, the marketing team and the development team separately, when in the past, that was a single person. Once you have your business name, you need to look good doing it.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Leading the architecture and technical direction of the product - This is closely related to leading the development team, but it is really a different skill set. Any successful technology leader will know how to inspire the engineering team to “own&# the technology success of the company. Thanks for commenting.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. March 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm. [.]

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. If that works, thats a good start.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Localization of the AppStore metadata (name, description, keywords, screenshot text) yielded the best instant boost in downloads, while localization of the app’s UI makes for a better user experience and increases engagement. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. What a splurge! You get the picture.

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