Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Bulgaria Lean 374

ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Marketers are intimately familiar with their industry and product. The advanced technical knowledge of university professors in engineering and science, for example, makes it harder for them to teach first-year students effectively. The curse of knowledge in marketing. In marketing, the implications are obvious.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Instead, identifying a narrow target market and focusing efforts there is key, especially for startups with limited resources. They should be capable of navigating the complexities of sales, including closing deals while guiding the team effectively. Sally also underscores the significance of marketing in this equation.

Early Stage 78

Early Stage Sales Developer Development Team Review 78

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Commercial – a data/tech/commercial partnership or client relationship.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

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. The technology is mature enough that working from home works pretty well. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19. Managing to Win. Then we set monthly OKRs.

Silicon Valley 198

Silicon Valley Distribution Engineer Technical Review 198

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Most successful business plans entail launching a new product, service, or distribution outlet that attacks existing market competitors on what military planners would term an exposed flank. For example, Wendy’s did not start out attacking the fast food burger market by trying to out do McDonald’s with inexpensive, quick to deliver burgers.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Development Team Review Differentiation Leadership 80

Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It’s the driver of both sales and marketing and establishes a 24/7 representation of your brand. One large advantage of WooCommerce is that it is an open-source platform, so there are hundreds of thousands of web teams who specialize in this technology. With an eCommerce business, your website is everything.

eCommerce 149

eCommerce Development Team Review Hosting Security 149

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? To summarize: Anything that can be copied will be copied, including features, marketing copy, and pricing.

Software Review 325

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia 325

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It always goes like this: I'm just a two-person operation with no budget. What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? It can actually be an advantage to have a big player in your market, especially if they enter your market after you're established.

Software Review 243

Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review Software Developers 243

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans.

CTO 40

CTO Technical Review Technology Software Review 40

ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

After all, if you don’t conduct proper quality assurance, you might declare a vastly better treatment a loser due to a technical problem. UX (and the entire development team) and QA teams should work together from the beginning. User testing vs. quality assurance.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Mobile 63

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Review the code being built.

Technical Cofounder 338

Technical Cofounder Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 338

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

before visitors have time to suffer through friction and other “conversion killers” When conducting quality assurance, frequently referred to as QA, you’ll work closely with the development team to ensure everything looks and works correctly on all relevant devices and on all relevant browsers. via Box UK).

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Software Review Mobile Analytics 104

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

We were using it to get features to market faster, and that was working well. But we were cutting corners in the development methodology as well as in the code, in the name of increased speed. Heres my diagnosis of his problem: He has some automated tests, but his team doesnt have a continuous integration server or practice TDD.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

But it goes beyond that, including techniques for improving the economics of product development. Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. percent utilization in the precourse surveys. What will this do?

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So it all begs the question, if you’re not from a tech background do you even have a shot at starting a web startup? Non-Technology Driven Startups The first question to ask is, is your startup idea technology driven? Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem?

Web 40

Web Technical Review Developer Cofounder 40

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Adobe Analytics is part of Adobe’s Marketing Suite, and it’s a powerful platform. They have a complex ecosystem and veritable one stop shop for many marketing requirements, but not all.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Conversion 48

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Have an account? This is particularly true for mobile devices.

Developer 93

Developer HTML API Ruby 93

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. We also try to communicate the initial due date with as few people outside our company (investors, customers, etc) as possible to avoid losing credibility.

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. ability based on one of many technologies.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Marcel Petitpas. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Marcel Petitpas. More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. Like this show?

Cofounder 76

Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 76

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. If you are in a feature phone majority market, and that market has most of the monetizable behavior, please invest in unique tracking there.

Analytics 141

Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141