YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But wanting to materialize a product or service and sustaining its operations are two different things. Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A $150 llama rental for a photoshoot, $250 for a bagpipe player at a customer picnic, $5,000 for an executive’s tires — these are just some of the most questionable things people have paid for or attempted to pay for, in the name of business. But not all items that land in expense reports are blatantly over-the-top. Think about it.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Among these, sales, marketing, customer service, and product development take center stage. Personalize the reminders with the customer’s name, invoice details, and a friendly but firm tone. Additionally, personalize interactions by addressing customers by name and expressing appreciation for their business.

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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. When an entrepreneur can forecast his next moves, even his/her employees become part of the moves the business makes. This is right in the middle of the model.

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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Ansoff Matrix , named for its strategist creator Igor Ansoff, can be a helpful tool as you evaluate growth opportunities. It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Product development. New channels. Acquisitions.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

This eventually creates animosity and is the worst type of employee to have. I never desired to be that employee, and hence chose to implement my own ideas and do things my own. Then they decided to fire all of the high-paid employees. 9- Be a household name. Historically, lighting equipment advanced at a glacial pace.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. of Canada’s economic output. Inno Tech Alberta Inc.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In addition, today’s advancements in technology have disrupted the workforce, transforming the nature of work, and has afforded businesses the ability to become more productive as they restructure their workflow and employee workload. Gain more from your employees. Invest in disruptive technologies.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. Step 3: List the names of the business development, technology scouts and other people involved in acquisitions and note their names next to the name of the target company. The odds on day-one are that you can’t name anyone.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 12, 2017

One of his lessons remains clearly on my mind and is a variant of the old “You name the price and I’ll name the terms” challenge that works so well in negotiation. In a previous insight, we explored the common percentage of a company’s fully diluted stock that is often granted in the form of options for new employees. (See

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. And it may work.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What if employee candidates ask for the moon? One of his lessons remains clearly on my mind and is a variant of the old “You name the price and I’ll name the terms” challenge that works so well in negotiation. In 1981, Herb Cohen wrote and published “ You Can Negotiate Anything ”, an excellent guide to great negotiating.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Believably promote your product.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Kaizen: a way to improve all functions and all employees. All it takes is one observant employee to get the ball rolling, and soon a small group of hand-picked team members convenes to brainstorm—and eventually trial—new approaches to old problems. See Also: How to Recognize and Put a Stop to Employee Burnout. Then Lead Them.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. And engaging customers in such ways is generally much less expensive than hiring costly employees or agencies. Not necessarily.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Could create and introduce new and disruptive products and/or services for new markets. To make this happen the Outpost’s first employees must be technology connectors – people who understand the parent corporation’s strategy and can execute it tactically. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

And that might be in a startup, it might be as a founder of a startup, it might be as an early employee, as a startup. Once we've got that line of customers waiting down the street to use this product, we think they want, but we haven't built yet, let's go build it. Let's go start that product development process.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The other major thing Graham advises startups not to do: “other things” Namely: [D]on’t go to graduate school, and don’t start other projects. I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc.

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics calculates that this saving for each half-time remote employee could reach $11,000 per year. It demands a level of employee management and project management skills beyond regular. As the name suggests, Scrumban is a combination of practices from Scrum and Kanban. Employers like the idea too.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2018

I was named after my grandmother Salud, a Spanish word that means, “good health.” I faced the pressure and sobering responsibility of making payroll for employees who had families and who were over twice my age. I was born and raised some 8,500 miles away from the bright lights of Time Square, in the Philippines.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. They dedicate themselves to constant innovation in not only the technology and products that they offer to the public, but as a corporate entity as well. Thanks to Christina Giaquinto, Modular Closets ! Photo Credit: Curtis Lawson.

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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. Learn and adapt.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

As we continue to grow as a company, we will strive to remain a great place where our employees love to work. So we’re excited to keep developing our little company and evolving our product line in 2018. communities through business development, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy education.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

When I think, of a “disruptor,” the first name that comes to mind is Elon Musk. I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening. 14- The Farmstand.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

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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. Naturally, we already know the standard of quality that they will use to judge our product.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2010

They have fewer employees, which means there are typically fewer people focused on things like marketing, sales, and product development. I'm such a big believer in this that I named my own angel fund Bullet Time Ventures. Initially, most startups have less money than their competitors. Startups have less credibility.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

A strong brand identity starts with a strong company logo and company name , but branding is more than a logo and name. You want people who have different perspectives on the company and should include people from sales, marketing, product development, engineering, etc. In what areas does your business regularly excel?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One of the best ways to promote your business and increase its name recognition is by joining business organizations and/or communities or associations. The curriculum was comprehensive and covered a wide range of topics, from product development to fundraising. Thanks to Ethan Isaacson, LegalEase Citations ! #25-

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. Product marketers own a variety of marketing responsibilities, which can be roughly divided into two broad categories: pre-launch and post-launch. Both companies suffered from a fatal lack of marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. In a project like that there are lots of big questions that need to be answered in order to build a working product. Thats pretty clear.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Together, they set out to build a company that was based on creating a social driven, high-quality product, with each telling a unique story. . Passionate about Greece, he used this as inspiration to not only name the product, but to also develop a way to help Greece during these troubled times. Handmade in Greece.

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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? The good news: There are good answers to these questions!

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Pay attention to whether people are comfortable “naming names&# in the meeting. For example, I often cite a real example of a problem that has as its root cause a new employee who was not properly trained. If new employees are causing problems, that will be a routine topic. There’s no easy fix to this problem.

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