Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit. Process Versus Product. People who manage processes are not the same people as those who create product.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

They are used for different things, such as: Some business plans are intended for outsiders, as summary and description of the business, to serve the purpose of raising money with investors, backing up a commercial loan document, and so forth. I’ll join in the due diligence for my angel group, test for myself, and develop my informed opinion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The result is a bloated first product which finally collapses under its own weight, or is too late and too expensive for the intended customer. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The result is a bloated first product which finally collapses under its own weight, or is too late and too expensive for the intended customer. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off.

Technical Review 187

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers.

Software Review 164

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. Professional relationships.

Entrepreneur 275

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. I spent time with the folks (Klaus Schauser and Brian Danahoo) at AppFolio before they ever launched their products. They recorded it.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Objectively reviewing your finances is important, and this is a prerequisite to creating a forecast. You can track your most important financials in Excel spreadsheets, but using a business dashboard tool that integrates with your accounting software can make it easier and help you avoid doing double data entry. Show and tell.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Software as a service platforms make it easier and more cost-effective than ever to run a business, thanks to powerful applications for accounting, customer relationship management, and other important functions.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2021

Ideally, the trademark registration process should begin as soon as you’ve narrowed down a selection of possible marks, including business or product names, logos , and slogans. When is it time to apply for a trademark. Application intricacies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. Professional relationships.

Entrepreneur 237

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

“Feature creep” (or scope creep) refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product before first delivery. The result is a bloated first product which finally collapses under its own weight, or is too late and too expensive for the intended customer. Here are some basic rules to live by: Document the requirements.

Technical Review 129

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products. But what about Commodity?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. This condition makes it much easier for teams to innovate, experiment, and achieve sustained productivity.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

Forecast 60

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Dates are irrelevant. Focus on launching.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. An entrepreneur can quantitatively test potential buyers’ real intentions and develop a genuine understanding their needs before building out the product (app). It’s hard to imagine product functionality. Priorities change.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

We have lower costs and risks due to using blockchain to manage critical functions such as issuing and managing cryptocurrency, grants, intellectual properties and STEM career listings. Our team is experienced with over 150 years of research and software product development experience that includes five startups and an exit.

Intellectual Property 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The art team would often be involved in the specification phase of a new feature, since they were responsible for the look-and-feel of the product. But according to the theory, this should have been covered by the various specs and documentation we were rigorous about producing. I remember one such meeting vividly.

Technical Review 164

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. Putting out there as to what our financial results will be , and why - in the form of well-documented and reasoned financial forecasts. I will review and reach out with some thoughts to help you. Curious to know how buyers might value your company now? read more.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users. Adhering to standard rules and processes, no matter how formally they are documented, can keep the machinery humming. Not really.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

An effective product launch strategy helps you generate awareness, build intrigue, and validate your product positioning. The best product launches take into account the product lifecycle—understanding where it fits into the bigger picture, and how to transition through each phase. But it’s not a linear journey.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. I started UpKeep after seeing and using traditional enterprise software.

Software Review 74

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. Kent Beck is deservedly famous for his many contributions in the software industry. Unfortunately, the video of our sllconf conversation is not online (due to technical problems), but we have a physical tape backup which we are endeavoring to get online soon.

San Francisco 133

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. only two kids took it up!

Programming 143

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Coming up with an idea or inventing a product is a process that takes commitment, dedication, and self-belief. Ultimately, inventing a product or coming up with an idea means one thing: solving a problem, whether it’s your own or someone else’s. What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? Step 5: Protect your idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. A new bit of code contained an infinite loop!

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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! Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. Most of us have worked in corporate environments where you're never allowed to go back and refactor code.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Wrike is a versatile project management software that enables multifunctional teams to collaborate and effectively achieve their aims from a single location. Such as its rise to fame, numerous Fortune 500 companies have made Wrike their project management software of choice, including EA Sports, Adobe, and Stanford University.

Management 124

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2015

Initially created as a way to link customer needs to performance measures in Japanese product development, VOC has jumped into the mainstream of market research. What problem does our product/service lessen or fix for you?”- Refer to John Hauser’s Note on the Voice of the Customer to get a detailed elaboration on each aspect.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Building Product 2. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated. Build something.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

I believe it is a full, company-wide turn through the OODA loop (for a software business, see especially Ideas-Code-Learn ). In fact, every single lean transformation documented in books like Lean Thinking took place in the midst of serious external threats. What counts as an iteration? Were talking PayPal -sized variations.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. We want people to experience the product, the interface, the usefulness of what we’ve built.

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