Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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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. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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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. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

Here are the key parameters that can swing the pendulum: Engineers have an uncontrollable ability to add more features. Many good ideas never get off the ground, simply because the product or service is never “finished.” Of course, if you fire without aiming, there’s always a greater chance that you will shoot yourself in the foot.

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Marketing Technical Review Cost Product Development 302

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

You might also consider speaking to a product development studio such as Dovetail to help with your product discovery process. As an example, Dovetail leads consumer product development at Afterpay and has helped them grow to a $10B international payments leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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Finance Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 320

femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. When to start recruiting? Sweat equity or salary?

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Engineer Software Review Startup Technical Review 41

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain. To calculate precisely how much you need to spend on that, analyze the following factors: Developers’ seniority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

Coding standards - Ensure that your code meets software development and quality standards and fits into the continuous release process. Ownership - Participate in the whole sprint process for product development. Mentorship - Deep dive into the project with the support of our professional developers.

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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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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

Businesses have a lot to think about when they have a new product idea and one missed step in the product development lifecycle can significantly impact business success. If your product has 200 parts, then there are more than 200 spec sheets to get familiar with and organize for the submission.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Then as your business grows, you’ve already established a culture of good engineering practices, you already have the senior staff up to speed, and you’ll find it easy to attract more talent. NVV: Startups are all about tradeoffs, and engineering is a great example. And your code already does what it’s supposed to do!

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Technology Ruby Startup Engineer 334

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cashflow is everything.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

You don’t have a clue about what the purpose of marketing is because all you are doing is giving engineering a list of feature requests and executing a series of tasks like they’re like a big To Do list. You act as a tactical implementer as you add no insight/or value to product development. I was a great marketer.

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Business Model Product Development Early Stage Customer Development 305

Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. Leaving the parking lot, the engineering managers in the back row of the van argued. The product manager who was driving whispered, “For years that said no one needs off-line setup.

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San Jose Technical Review Customer Development Software Review 256

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2019

Here are the key parameters that can swing the pendulum: Engineers have an uncontrollable ability to add more features. Many good ideas never get off the ground, simply because the product or service is never “finished.” Of course, if you fire without aiming, there’s always a greater chance that you will shoot yourself in the foot.

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Startup Cost Product Development 233

blog.wepay.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. I used to think that you build the product and then you get people to use it. The 90/10 rule.

Engineer 53

Engineer Software Review Web Technical Review 53

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. Reducing product turn time. Extending the runway. The Lean Start-Up Environment.

Product Development 132

Product Development Lean Developer Product 132

Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

Coding standards - Ensure that your code meets software development and quality standards and fits into the continuous release process. Ownership - Participate in the whole sprint process for product development. Mentorship - Deep dive into the project with the support of our professional developers.

Bulgaria 52

Bulgaria Java Turkey Europe 52

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For example, Artem is an expert in software engineering, product development and all things tech. It’s important for co-founders to each have their own personal strengths in a business so they can divide the responsibilities and succeed in their respective roles.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Startup founders counting the days until break-even or actively seeking outside capital must focus on streamlining their development cycles.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Occasionally, academics wade into the debate with data, including researchers at CMU’s Sofware Engineering Institute , who recently noted: […] while some programmers are better or faster than others, the scale and usefulness of this [10x] difference has been greatly exaggerated.

Software Review 111

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. Everypixel: Stock image search engine. Everypixel is an image search engine for quality stock images.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Agile Software Review Algorithm 71

blog.wepay.com

APRIL 28, 2010

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. I used to think that you build the product and then you get people to use it. The 90/10 rule.

Engineer 53

Engineer Software Review Web Technical Review 53

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

The research activities must be technological in nature; in other words, they must rely on the sciences such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, etc. Typical indicators of qualified research include: Degreed engineers, scientists, or software developers on staff. Manufacturing products.

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Indiana Software Review Software Developers Software Development 104

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. Hiring for tech jobs in Vancouver is all done online.

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Canada Hiring Artificial Inteligence Software Developers 149

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

Do you want the product, or does your target market want the product? When I began developing the customer search engine SocialCentiv using Twitter, I envisioned the project as an add-on to our already popular SocialCompass. Professionalisms Adam Root Hiplogiq product development startup'

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

Many of the most talented entrepreneurs and engineers left India to study and then work in the US and Canada. With the right product or service for the Indian market and strong execution, an “India for India” start-up can see incredible growth. Reverse brain drain” “Reverse brain drain” is a real thing in India.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. A data science and AI consulting company should be looked at primarily when you need to improve the products which have the appropriate functions around machine learning.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering Analytics Engineer 92

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies. Startups can do anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. cutting edge technology (WebRTC), 2. Do you compromise, or do you keep looking?

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Elevator Pitch Hiring Dividend 140

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already starting to have a significant impact on search engine optimization (SEO) for agencies. With the popularity of TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, and YouTube Shorts exploding, anyone with a product or service to promote will add more vertical video content to their marketing plan.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Media 121

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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