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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

That lets you learn the flaws in your design much earlier. Does that inform everything from the start, or does it come in after you’ve identified a problem to solve with a product you’ll build? It means you’ve set up good tooling so that developers can attack problems quickly without a lot of grunt work.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Leveraged distribution channels.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. He just hired Meg Whitman. The result?

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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Product development. Product development allows you to expand your existing market share by developing a new product for that audience. New channels.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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The Benefits Of An MBA In Business Growth

The Startup Magazine

An MBA is designed to cultivate soft and hard skills that ultimately help you and your business grow. Most online MBA programs have gained traction since the pandemic and are a favorable alternative to an on-campus program because of their flexibility, affordability, and innovative frameworks.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Just as Durant had multiple interests, Musk is not only Tesla’s CEO and Product Architect, overseeing all product development, engineering, and design.

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