Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives. Hire more help than helpers. 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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] And that's because you're just operating on different scales and you need to focus on different things. Steve Hoffman (06:08): If you don't get the right people on board, you know, hire them really hard to succeed, marketing, getting your name out. Show us that demand.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Prezi hired the former director of product from Pixar to build a more cinematic video meeting experience. With more of us working from home and placing more demands on our bandwidths, faster internet with increased capacity for file sharing and uninterrupted Zoom conversations is the natural next step. Photo Credit: Kevin Burke.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Companies can improve their efficiency, productivity, and responsiveness with the aid of these solutions. Companies can reallocate resources back into core business activities and new product development by streamlining IT operations. This calls for cutting-edge creations, first-rate support, and savvy advertising.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Learn more about validating your business idea and product concept here. The MVP concept, popularized by Eric Rice of Lean Startup , assumes that before going all in and pouring significant sums into product development, you test the grounds with a “beta” version of your product. What mobile OS systems do they use?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives. Hire more help than helpers. 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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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

You may remember Bala’s talk on supply-demand equilibrium at our data-driven marketplace meetup back in May 2017. Bala is a seasoned product, business, and technology leader. Hopefully, the discussion will spill over into the comments section – where you can ask any questions and our profiled operator can engage further.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Develop a strategic vision As a tech leader, it’s important to have a clear vision for where you want your company to go. This means thinking beyond the day-to-day operations of the business and focusing on long-term goals and objectives. Here are a few ways to help tech leaders start thinking like CEOs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

These founders specify, design, and build a fully featured product using classic product development methods without ever leaving their building. Executives look at that date and the calendar, working backward to ignite fireworks on the day the product is launched. Start-ups by definition have few, if any, of these.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2015

Find Where Your Passion and Consumer Demand Intersect. We should have settled on a product or service that aligned with our passions and appealed to consumers. We didn’t gauge market demand from the start, and that set us up for failure. Before launching your product, you need to involve your audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives. Hire more help than helpers. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives. Hire more help than helpers. 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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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2016

The trifecta of urbanization, digitization, and globalization undercuts job growth in some industries while fueling demand for restaurants. Bank customers never saw the switchboard operator, mail cart attendee, or other staff who performed repetitive, back-office tasks. Think about how intimate that is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives. Hire more help than helpers. 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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile product development? Youve probably addressed this in the past, but I continue to be blown away by how fast Blizzard reacts to noise in their forums and rapidly makes fixes to the product. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . As the company grows, this kind of work generalizes into "executing the companys current strategy."

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. We can learn to see.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital. They evolve the product faster.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. We stand on the shoulders of giants: customer development, the theory of disruptive innovation, the technology life-cycle adoption theory, and agile development.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company quickly realized that its initial commercial product was in huge demand – they had reached product-market fit nirvana. This presents the second interesting scaling take-away of the Akamai story: when you achieve product-market fit, it’s ok to have some waste in order to grow fast. Akamai Going Forward.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. This second objective plays no small part in allowing you to hire the best. Hiring decisions are among the most difficult, and the most critical.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Given all the demands on your time, the hours spent educating a consultant regarding your business are costly. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The market demand is broadly recognized, but the incumbent players are fulfilling that demand in a lazy way. They spend decades internalizing and perfecting a set of strong operating principles. Now imagine you were an electric shaver company back then, trying to hire a product manager. TYPE 1: LAZY COMPETITION.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. I already reach thousands of entrepreneurs through this blog, my Leanpub-powered ebooks, and even printed versions created via print-on-demand at Lulu. Does anyone feel like our world is getting more and more stable every day?

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people. Q: What are some Pre-Seed funds operating today?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

I never know if I will be wearing my marketing hat, my finance hat, my product development hat, or my lawyer hat. Sometimes we have hiring opportunities or development opportunities. Every day is different and requires me to think about the business in different ways. Thanks to Stewart J.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

A founder typically recruits co-founders and then becomes part of the founding team involved in day-to-day company operations. If any of the answers are “Yes,” then hire them a bit later as an early employee. In addition, the founding CEO thrives operating in chaos and uncertainty.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

FYI the surveymonkey link isnt operational. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . November 19, 2008 5:57 PM McElroy Flavelle said. Hi Erik, Im a independent games producer based in Vancouver. No idea how I found your blog but I follow it with my Google Reader.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. .

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