Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2020

The loss of these major customers can have a dramatic impact on both internal (employees) and external contributors (investors). Once a client has made this decision, it is important for company managers and staff to perform an analysis of what went wrong, and why. sales to product development), the problems will continue to exist.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

According to the Small Business Administration , just one in two businesses with employees survives to see its fifth anniversary. By the 10-year mark, fewer than 30% of businesses with employees remain viable. Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

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. It has to be found and managed.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. Check out these critical tips for developing an effective marketing strategy for startups in boring industries. Choose your Market Audience. Choose a Brand Name.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Wrike is a versatile project management software that enables multifunctional teams to collaborate and effectively achieve their aims from a single location. Such as its rise to fame, numerous Fortune 500 companies have made Wrike their project management software of choice, including EA Sports, Adobe, and Stanford University.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Rosenberg comes fresh from managing the growth of Keyrus, a data consulting company, from 35 to 120 employees. In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself.

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

It rids them of the commuting hassles and gives them more freedom in managing their time and workflow. GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics calculates that this saving for each half-time remote employee could reach $11,000 per year. It demands a level of employee management and project management skills beyond regular.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 22, 2019

The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. Why is it that organizations don’t invest in training operational employees? Don’t this large group of employees deserve a Brown Bag Innovation Training? It’s almost as if creativity from operational employees is actively discouraged.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

In software, those avenues are your customers, industry, employees, and the broader trends associated with current events. You’ll need Site Reliability Management (SRE). If you’re not already, adopt an agile methodology not only for software development, but also for communication improvements. Looking to the Future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving. In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries. Mobile banking in developing countries. Examples of successful frugal innovations.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

The journey to success often requires consistent self-development, an area that an advanced qualification can help you thrive. If the communication with your employees is confined to little more than a regular Zoom meeting or the occasional email chain, there are still many aspects of management and leadership that need to be addressed.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

It’s an expression of the uncertainty that comes from working in an environment where ethics are lax, employees don’t feel valued, and information is withheld. When it thrives in an organization, it signals a lack of employee trust — a problem that’s gotten significantly worse over the last generation. Do leaders keep their promises?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2013

Almost all new business owners will have to make an initial investment in the technological aspect of production and everyday business activities. Cell phones, laptops for traveling employees and website development will have to be included among the technological costs, as well. Product Development and Marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

It’s an expression of the uncertainty that comes from working in an environment where ethics are lax, employees don’t feel valued, and information is withheld. When it thrives in an organization, it signals a lack of employee trust — a problem that’s gotten significantly worse over the last generation. Do leaders keep their promises?

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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. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cashflow personally every day.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Time and time again, there’s one critical component that hampers productivity and efficiency: We are wired to work within the confines of organizational silos. Your prospects, customers and partners (and employees for that matter) do not see you as a series of disparate organizations. They see you as a company.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

InvGate , a provider of IT service management and IT asset management solutions, has secured $35 million in a growth round to fuel its international expansion. InvGate’s products are made to simplify IT management for businesses with 50-50,000 employees.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From recruitment to CRM, project management to marketing, there’s a tool for everything be it for managing work, tech stack , etc. It lets you manage campaigns and visualize marketing programs. When you’re heading a fast-paced startup, you can’t waste time managing everyday activities. Mighty Networks.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Take a closer look at how you manage your company. When paying employees becomes too expensive, many companies either lay people off or keep their workers but reduce salaries. While this strategy may lower your current overhead, it can also have a negative impact on employee morale and on your company’s long-term financial health.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

How To Scale a Development Team. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team. Most technology companies hit a wall with dev team scalability somewhere around ten developers. Most technology companies hit a wall with dev team scalability somewhere around ten developers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. That changes the annual cost of your employee from $60,000 to $69,000 with an associated change in hourly cost: 20 WD/month, $36/hour. Oh sure, founders work 60-80-hour weeks, but not employees. What to do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2021

Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all about holding themselves accountable. Employees can’t be accountable if they don’t know what is expected of them. Use blame and complain in lieu of accepting accountability.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. For example, in 2021 accounting software platform Bill.com acquired spend management tool Divvy in order to increase its market share. Market development. Product development.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. The concept of “seed funding” originates from the metaphor of growing a tree, in which the seed represents the initial component required to move forward with developing a business.

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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."

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

Your company needs the strongest product team possible, and if you don’t develop your team and provide growth opportunities, there are other companies that will. I have always been a big believer in the old adage that “people join a company but leave a manager.” his ability).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

To create a sustainable business model, owners and manager now must consider how their business processes and infrastructure can save money instead of draining their budgets. Fortunately, developers and tech companies are creating solutions that help businesses reduce operating expenses while simplifying their processes.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. The most sought-after hires are computer programmers and interactive media developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. Employees can also be a valuable source of referrals. It doesn’t take long to ask your employees and network, so do it. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Hiring = Sales. A good recruitment process has many parallels with a sales funnel.

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