YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2020

Product Lifecycle Management?software software –?or or PLM software?–?facilitates facilitates the design and manufacturing process of a wide variety of products and is especially relevant to the cosmetic industry. What Is PLM Software? or new product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. I agree with the less is more product development approach, but for a different reason. Now that is fun.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2021

As a new entrant, or established business looking to grow, instead of attempting to claim current enterprise customers from your competitors, you can develop another market segment. You may see an opportunity to provide a lighter version of your software to smaller businesses. Launch a new product or service.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. For example, in 2021 accounting software platform Bill.com acquired spend management tool Divvy in order to increase its market share. Product development. New channels.

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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. Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Back then he advocated for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

There is so much positive feedback on the value of involving customers in product development, and the use of social media for crowd feedback, at a very low cost, that’s it hard to argue that one person could have more insight alone, and be right more often. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Just a decade ago, most software/cloud startups used a traditional model where product and marketing were siloed: product teams created the product and marketing drove people to the website to buy it. New platforms as distribution tools. Today, it’s common to see entire growth teams and a dedicated growth PM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

There is so much positive feedback on the value of involving customers in product development, and the use of social media for crowd feedback, at a very low cost, that’s it hard to argue that one person could have more insight alone, and be right more often. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Besides the general focus on customer and product development, an entrepreneur should foresee the next moves that will serve to guide him on the right path. 10- As one of the foundational software solutions. When an entrepreneur can forecast his next moves, even his/her employees become part of the moves the business makes.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. I build apps all the time, how hard could it be to launch a product?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. B2B enterprises would have to use various digital technologies like workflow management software to attain these goals. Companies will also be able to simplify product.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

What are the main channels for app marketing and distribution today? Ads – targeted advertising is perhaps THE most reliable channel to market and distribute a consumer app. Therefore, my recommendation for startups who are pre-monetisation is to experiment with new organic distribution ways.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Hyatt, founder of Conduit Labs , gave a talk on Tuesday entitled “Off The Record,” about the predictive approach to product development. Shah, founder and CTO of Hubspot , spoke on Monday afternoon about inbound marketing for startups.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

These costs don’t take into account the many relevant systems within Shopify’s business such as maintaining its API, the infrastructure and server space needed to support its 50,000+ shops and designing and developing all of the beautiful templates that help make Shopify so successful.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Instead of paying ridiculously high rent in San Francisco or London, startups and small businesses can spend on product development and marketing, thus tremendously increasing the chances of successful market entry and expansion. Work from home and remote work also significantly cut office costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

There is so much positive feedback on the value of involving customers in product development, and the use of social media for crowd feedback, at a very low cost, that’s it hard to argue that one person could have more insight alone, and be right more often. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations.

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Merger Analytics Open Source America 276

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. Many distribution, manufacturing, and service businesses fit this description. And as they do, sometimes even unknowingly that beautiful dream of a business exit and financial windfall recedes depressingly into the sunset.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It is surrounded by free tools and services such as career postings, a document development tool from our partner doDOC™, preprint server, equipment and grants. Our team is experienced with over 150 years of research and software product development experience that includes five startups and an exit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. We already know who to distribute the product to (or else why would we care what they think?).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For component manufacturers who sell to OEMs or who are at the top of a long distribution chain, a canvas can be completed for each constituent in the distribution chain, including the end-user, as each constituent has its own unique job to get done. Other products used and their functions. 8 steps to define Jobs to Be Done.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Active software engineers probably get two offers a month or more. I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. Mint & finances #distribution #andalsoproduct # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 3: Build brand buzz to epic proportions, aka a Purple Cow, ie. YHOO ) in its second act. startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) Do you fix bugs before writing code?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

But if you are going to have somebody who's developing a product, developing a new technology, designing, or going out into marketing and figuring out new ways to market, you really need a thinker. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely. Now we're more like a distributed innovation hub.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

And as much as I like the startup ecosystem here it seems to me that the people cost of software development forces startups to launch half-baked products. Which seems to offer an understanding of “customer development&# that’s quite different the Four Steps to the Epiphany approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? On commit automatically run all tests.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2017

Address any concerns before they happen by keeping your audience members informed of your current production cycle stage. Most backers lack experience with product development, manufacturing, and distribution. Resist the urge to plan second product versions or other distribution opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2018

Product Development. Marketing and distribution are recurring costs that you can only trim so far. Your product might “sell itself,” but it still has to get into customers’ hands somehow.) Once you’re in, huddle with mentors to refine your plan. Make it through enough cuts and you might even win a few bucks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

How To Scale a Development Team. As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team. Most technology companies hit a wall with dev team scalability somewhere around ten developers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. Were a software company, so what we do everyday is turn ideas into code.

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