Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The cloud makes software easily accessible, without waiting for CD shipments to arrive and installed. The good news is that the reach of your new software application is instantly worldwide, and the bad news is that most people still prefer to work in their own native language. Optimize the costs of localization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Social media is not rocket science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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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. Its a key lean startup concept.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Startup founders counting the days until break-even or actively seeking outside capital must focus on streamlining their development cycles. Focus on Your Minimum Viable Product. Stay Lean and Low.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. 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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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. Selling JAIC Like Enterprise Sales. I organized my missions teams like an enterprise sales team.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain. Develop a software solution. Discuss the suitable tools with your development team. Hourly rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

The good news is that the reach of your new software application is instantly worldwide, and the bad news is that most people still prefer to work in their own native language. In my experience, there are many considerations which are critical to the productivity and success of this effort. Optimize the costs of localization.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. The business model.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

There are several elements that go into hardware product design that taps an unaddressed customer need, has the customer WOW factor, and succeeds long term in the market. Complicating the development of a useful product is the stringent safety and compliance approval testing that varies based on country and industry.

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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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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses. Most startups fail.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Social media is not rocket science.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. The goal of market penetration is to leverage new tactics to increase product sales , including existing customers and new customers within existing markets. Market development.

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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. Websites such as 604jobs.ca

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

Almost every decision you make—what you sell, how much you sell it for, where you’re located, who you hire—is made with the intention of bringing in the maximum number of customers to your store, and to optimize the likelihood that they’ll buy your products while they’re there. a product that gets you customers).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Product leaders often believe it’s cheaper to buy software than build it. You don’t need a large development team or outside capital to build your own software from scratch. Gartner forecasts enterprise software spending will total almost $572 billion worldwide by 2022. Say you decide to build software in-house.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

We’re excited to back Caesar, which is creating the software layer that has the potential to become the “system of record” and primary business intelligence application for corporate ESG data.” . “Businesses of all sizes are thinking about sustainability and corporate responsibility more deeply than ever before.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Standing for research and development; this activity ultimately creates winning opportunities for the companies leveraging it. Let’s find out the R&D investment meaning and the reasons why invest in research and development, following the example of industry-disrupting companies. Develop a unique product or service.

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David Teten

JUNE 25, 2012

I’m looking for an entrepreneur to start a company to provide this product, or a development shop which wants to bid on this project. I envision a software tool which makes your underlying software irrelevant, by standardizing the UI across all different products.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2021

This requires you to take what you’ve learned during your market analysis to develop a market penetration strategy for your business. So, what exactly is a market penetration strategy and how do you develop one? By using your research to develop a market penetration strategy. Market penetration definition.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Turns out people want their laptops to do basic things like run games, Photoshop, or work software. More focus on customer demographics and implementing the findings into updates would probably have made a huge difference in sales. He has led teams in strategy, planning, business and corporate development, finance and operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Social media is not rocket science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. The product is behind schedule. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%. Sales aren’t meeting projections.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

After turning their attention toward feedback and testing, letting the voice of their customers fuel their content strategy and product development, they took off. Not revisiting your marketing objectives in the growth phase of your product lifecycle is the death knell of many startups.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Which is why I had OEM sales as part of marketing—we had to earn our keep.). I think he came to appreciate the sales culture later on. This was cool!

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You’ll learn about the different strategies available and the impact they’ll have on the future of your product. Before introduction comes development. 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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2012

We had closed four $100,000 deals for our customer relationship management software. Joe Dinucci, our VP of Sales, was hot on the trail of our next big order. He had just demo’d our product to his friend, the CFO of Autodesk. At the time Autodesk’s sales organization was frustrated with their IT department.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2014

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality.

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