Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about 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. The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) (steveblank.com) [.]

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2014

About eight years ago, after becoming concerned that it was losing its edge, Intuit proactively created a new culture and installed new processes, all designed to create an idea meritocracy. One of its primary goals was to galvanize product development by discovering often-unstated customer needs and creating solutions for them.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Up and Running

JULY 13, 2022

Invest in a professional design. The foundation for a website that attracts investors is quality web design that represents your business in a professional manner. Even if you only have a one-page website, it’s best to avoid using a templated design. The more quality and customized your design is, the better.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

And so that book, the book is designed to give entrepreneurs really practical and concrete advice on how to avoid all the pitfalls of doing a startup and act and come out on top. Or are you happy to run just the local restaurant that is differentiator. How do you differentiate yourself? Do you have big plans?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2023

The Power of Differentiation in Your Core Message How to Identify Your Core Message? The Power of Differentiation in Your Core Message It's a truth that might feel a bit hard to swallow, but here it is: nobody wants what we sell. It's a step-by-step approach designed to boost your marketing efforts. What is a Core Message?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). For example, a web designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Apart from basic usability fixes, aligning your messaging and design with your users’ motivations is a good bet. Empathic design is one such technique, an underutilized facet of qualitative research. What is Empathic Design? What you’re looking for are the implicit reasons people use your product.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Geoffrey Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm and four other books, Geoffrey Moore has been thinking about high-tech product development longer than most of have been doing anything on a computer. Geoffrey also talked through the product adoption cycle, but this was less applicable to the products I deal with as a Micropreneur.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Yet, where a company can *really* differentiate itself is in its ability to identify and recruit top talent. Top talent drives revenues, business development, great product development. b) No one's even using *anything* in this space yet, so our true competition is apathy and lack of awareness.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Before: After: Resources to help you to do this: How to Design an Ecommerce Checkout Flow How to Design Mobile SaaS Pricing Pages that Don’t Suck Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know But Can Learn From. For one, users experienced the whole product at once, so they weren’t able to differentiate between paid and free features.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

People had a terrible experience using their product. After turning their attention toward feedback and testing, letting the voice of their customers fuel their content strategy and product development, they took off. At launch, marketing is based on customer behavior related to the problem your product solves.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Product development budget: check. Product packaging? If you’re like most small businesses, product packaging is often a last minute detail for you, or at least not at the top of your priority list. Here’s what great packaging does for your product and your brand: 1. Advertising budget: check. Sets you apart.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

If you can sell your idea to companies or potential investors, your product could become the bestseller every inventor dreams of creating. Choose the numbers you’ll include in your elevator speech carefully and put them in context to support your product’s value proposition. Highlight your product’s key differentiators.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2016

When offering a new product or service it is important for a business to quickly demonstrate value to prospective customers and differentiate itself from the competition. Though most startups know the importance of brand identity, it can often take the back seat to more pressing matters such as product development or finances.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

Buyer” and “user” personas are very similar, but the labels do help to differentiate the kind of persona you are creating. Buyers” are the people who make the spending decisions while “users” are the people who actually use your product. a product that gets you customers). How to create a persona for your business.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2015

For example, if an entrepreneur is skilled at marketing but not design then if the investor has a good designer who can help the entrepreneur doesn’t have to spend hours reading blogs and having coffee with friends to figure out what good looks like and hire a freelancer.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Native advertising evokes an organic experience – one that pays tribute to the design and UX which has and continues to advance the Web. Vice President of Product Development and Content Strategy at SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle John Miller offered up some advice. So how should one avoid these native ad pitfalls?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. Establishing strong brand identity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development.

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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. Market Type also affects the market size as well as how you launch the product into the market. End result?

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2013

In a consumer product category such as household cleaning products, the industry success rate is a dismal 15 percent to 20 percent according to a Bloomberg Businessweek interview with former Proctor & Gamble CEO, Alan “A.G.” Half the companies in our survey experience budget overruns in new-product development.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2011

I discussed the importance of defining a frame of reference, leveraging points of parity, and articulating your brand’s points of differentiation. Establishing a strong brand position is an internal exercise that starts at product development and continues through rollout.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Differentiating our product.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Optimize product development and marketing process. Understand how to monetize a product based on actual user needs. It is a good way to justify market demand for a product and then get support from investors or partners. The practice of building a minimum viable product is a long-standing one on the tech market.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

We have a studio team – developers, designers etc. In the mid-2000s, some forward-thinking VCs began to differentiate by employing specialists within their management companies. We have been crucial in getting the product to market. plus recruiters, growth consultants, and brand & communications.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

Develop a sales messaging guide to create consistency around how your team describes the product, showcases its benefits, and differentiates it from competitors. Slack is known for its user-friendliness and intuitive design, and having this in-depth help center helps reinforce that product image. Measurable value.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Ma Mi Skin Care. This is her core market.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Differentiating our product.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable. We're keeping ourselves free for the community that has helped us build our product; premium vs basic seems wrong to us. October 8, 2009 3:30 AM Anton Zolotov said.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Professional services such as attorneys, accountants, consultants, and design or product development companies are classic body shop businesses that can’t scale. Trade secrets, effective branding, differentiation, and first-mover advantage can help. 5 Shark Tank Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. This is her core market.

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