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5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

Consider a Production-Ready SOM. Also known as a system on module, SOM offers companies a unique strategy when it comes to developing products while keeping customizability fully possible. One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. No more, no less.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

crowdSPRING Blog

Business owners report that their biggest concern with distributed teams is lower levels of productivity. As a part of Bloom and Liang’s research on productivity and telecommuting, the staff at Ctrip’s call center was split into two groups. We’re all excited about our vision and we focus on results, balance, and sustained productivity.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). To a paid product, so that we can actually become a sustainable business, and I think we’re hitting some sort of analysis process.

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