Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. Specialized VCs start to jump in at this stage.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. Reducing product turn time. Extending the runway. The Lean Start-Up Environment.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. I would definitely recommend it to any and everyone! CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. . My favorite part is how many different hats I wear. Would you recommend it? Looking Ahead .

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

One of them is the orthodox definition of code quality, but we have expanded on code quality with a couple of points of views of our own. The first and foremost category of quality for engineers is the mainstream definition of quality: “Did the code work as designed?” At Shippo, we think of code quality from 3 different points of view.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

With the right product or service for the Indian market and strong execution, an “India for India” start-up can see incredible growth. India for the world” has traditionally focused on outsourcing and leveraging cost advantages, from customer service to product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." Theory of market types.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. Specialized VCs start to jump in at this stage.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum is a framework that is used by software development teams to address complex problems while delivering products of the highest value. There are three important roles in product development, which are product owner, scrum master and Scrum development team. What is Scrum? What does the Scrum Master do?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

However, when it comes to MLM product development, marketing ideas and compensation plan strategy, being a creative copycat could be a legal and ethical shortcut to achieving your business goals for your new MLM, party plan or direct selling company. The real definition of copycat marketing is in the name. Creativity is Key.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development. Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Iterative release.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

One thing that every business definitely needs is reliable, flexible, and easily scalable web hosting. It is a task organizer tool that helps you sort your team’s development efforts efficiently. With Trello, all aspects of product development can be centralized in one location for your entire team to access.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Develop your business plan. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The context of starting business may have changed, and some of the tools and practices (especially around early product development and go-to-market) might look very different. But I find it definitely hurts to do it too early. Repeat founders make worthy partners, provided they recognize one truth.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This post describes such a model.

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Spencer Fry

DECEMBER 16, 2019

At 9 people, everyone could manage themselves and their own projects without stepping on anyone's toes, but as the product got bigger and as we got more customers, we needed to better coordinate across the company and the various departments. It's even difficult for me at times as the CEO. Continuing to learn and grow is key.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” This conversation will be a great opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to learn more about implementing Lean Startup ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

Women professionals are definitely increasing their ranks. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. The Asian population is expected to double by 2050, and Latinos are projected to jump from 17 to 25 percent in the same time frame.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. If you’re interested in sports tech (or want to argue with a 49ers fan) you should definitely follow Greg.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. As a result, the standard product development model is not only useless, it is dangerous.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

The Lean Startup Conference is an event by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs—except that our definition of “entrepreneur” may be different from the one you have in mind. Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

Building a business out of nothing definitely takes the proverbial village, and surrounding yourself with the right people at the right time is crucial for hitting milestones. For most of that time, I’d been working with a contract web developer to build out our site incrementally as I learned what customers wanted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I’m definitely a proponent of the multitasked approach, since every new venture is inherently risky, and startups usually take longer to ramp up than you imagine. It pays to be able to fall back into a familiar mental role to recover, when the pressures of fund raising, new product development, and satisfying initial customers wears you down.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. But it’s definitely a very small minority.” Developing Your Product. ” (Rob Go). ” (Melody Koh).

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

’’ Diversity hiring is not about ticking boxes in checklists or having all groups represented whatever the definition might be across different geographies around the world. All this changed for good when it became known that neurodiverse people can be super talented mathematicians, artists, engineers or software developers.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

It’s definitely an inspiring time! 18- The fact that as business is developing, you develop as well. Knowing your own business and running it helps you in developing each day. And I really like the fact that with my business developing, I am developing as well. Thanks to Jace Beeny. #18-

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

We lack a consistent and clear definition of the job. When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. What made them exceptional?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

In short, innovators and early adopters have faith that there will be benefits to using products that are unproven and even if they don’t they enjoy the process of using new stuff. So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

12:52] How do you help somebody understand the importance of brand development? [15:17] Clare Price (01:36): Well, I started developing the system about 10 years ago. Clare Price (03:49): Well, the way that we do it is we've developed six canvases that focus on six core areas of business growth. How'd we get to here?

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Berkonomics

JULY 13, 2023

Definition of tactics: Tactics support strategies and are shorter term and more procedural than the strategies they support. Assign our development manager to localize design and oversee the needed enhancements to our product and support materials for each new territory. EMEA, Asia, Latin America. But it is not written in stone.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Just as a refresher.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. And this was a huge product, which took years to develop.

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