Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. Tom Peters called the Management By Walking Around - MBWA.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 26, 2011

In this article, I’ll talk about the process we’re using in our product management-and-development teams to stay innovative. We did well innovating one product at a time without that kind of process largely because we had a group of experienced team members. Stage 2: Develop Concept. The Process. If yes, go on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a key lean startup concept. 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 has to be found and managed. Labels: product development 2comments: Anonymoussaid.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Not just to create but to constantly manage and evolve forever in an ongoing fashion. As we’ve headed towards our public launch, we actually hired two awesome Social Media Managers, Elaine and Anna , because we understood the level of engagement we’d need to have in the conversation. You have to get involved and involvement takes time.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) 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? Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. Like what?!

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