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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. Product development. During product development, test activities like: R&D.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development.

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6 Ways OKRs Can Help Your Startup Achieve World Domination

YoungUpstarts

Born out of Intel and then later fully actualized at Google with the help of John Doerr, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) have ushered in a new goal-setting framework that empowers every size business — but especially new ventures — to set out and stay on the right path to drive organizational success. Annual goals aren’t good enough.”

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

Over my career as a serial entrepreneur I observed that since the late 1990s, no early-stage Silicon Valley investor had used business plans to screen investments. The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? But all things are never equal.

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How to Build a Great Product Before Hiring Your First PM

View from Seed

Most startups don’t have the luxury of hiring an experienced PM early in their journey. Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. product engagement, retention metrics). In many cases it can be framed as learnings (e.g.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Customer Development is itself an example of SBCE.