Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. What is customer development?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I liked that Andy Jenkins and his development team are information marketers themselves, so they know and have experienced what problems info marketers face and have added really cool features specifically for some unique situations. You can follow Yaro on Twitter and see him in action at Yaro.TV.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Positioned as an expert mobile development team, Applabz turns conceptual ideas into tangible, cutting-edge mobile solutions. From custom app development to effective mobile marketing strategies, they embody the spirit of innovation. A motivated team, driven by a shared goal, can propel a startup to unparalleled heights.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Each week we discuss the latest news, resources and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. You really need to get with your development team and if you don’t know what the word responsive is, ask them and make them make your website that. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. Bring your questions.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. We have weekly executive reviews of those OKRs to track how we are progressing against intermediate milestones relative to the ultimate monthly goal. Then we set monthly OKRs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. A project usually has an absolute duration and budget whereas the time and money dedicated to development within the project is where the tradeoffs are made.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review!

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Notably VentureBeat cited that five of the 26 companies that presented at Y Combinator Investor Day were still in stealth mode. I think it saves time and effort and let's the marketing team and the dev team focus on what resonates instead of being focused on having a wider, low-quality audience from the onset.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

I think you and this is … Not to get too mad at here, but you is you the entrepreneur, you the CEO, the business owner, so you the listener. Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. I think the 12 points here are given from individual entrepreneurs. Jonathan: Right. Peter: Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Your actual business plan should be in a lot more detail than Guy describes in his post – his rules relate only to how the results of your work should be presented, not how the content should be derived. These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Neil Patel, a very smart entrepreneur, also has an excellent recent post that you may want to check out: “Beginner’s Guide to Finding the Right Business Partner” (see [link]. I know a lot of people who want to be an entrepreneur but many do not have what I call the “survival gene&#. If you like it, check out his blog and Twitter.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” We think so.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And make sure to read our recent posts with advice from Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on his advice to entrepreneurs as well ( here and here ). link] Michael Arrington yep, this stuff is gold for entrepreneurs. His presentation makes me think of that Kung Fu Panda movie: there is no secret recipe. How To Get There, is here.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am.

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