View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

We’re excited to back Caesar, which is creating the software layer that has the potential to become the “system of record” and primary business intelligence application for corporate ESG data.” . “Businesses of all sizes are thinking about sustainability and corporate responsibility more deeply than ever before.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum is a framework that is used by software development teams to address complex problems while delivering products of the highest value. Scrum is the most popular subset of the Agile methodology and is used by seventy percent of software teams around the world for project management. What is Scrum?

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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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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. Automate Repetitive Processes & Deploy Simulation Software.

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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. With improving awareness of our services within the Texas market, we plan to be able to expand our team and establish the framework for our roots in DFW.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

So, when you build software, it is almost like building a house of cards. The disadvantage with waterfall is that the time to market is low because it takes time to build the software and by that time the market has reached somewhere. As its official website suggests, it is a better way of building products.

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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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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 same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

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. For negotiation with providers, consider Buyer.co.

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Done informally as part of an accelerator, yes, but not with a framework based on a clear process and clear pedagogy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people. As a result, product development time was cut nearly in half in a three-year period.

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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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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” The Growth Manager is the catcher and champion for product requests from outside the growth team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

You may have to pay the writer and photographer, and perhaps you’ll spend some money on training the writer to use blogging software and social media tools that help them build a following. Maybe you’ve got technical advice for getting the most out of A/B testing on software projects. Note that this isn’t a free process.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

You see, in addition to being a fine example of a veteran software engineering leader, my neighbor Dave Thomas is also one of the top trainers in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (or BJJ) that you will find anywhere. Fortunately, as a software guy, he was able to do something about it by building his own.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many have fine-tuned frameworks with a high level of sophistication. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. New ideas need to integrate product development with marketing and sales as well. Look at what GigX is doing, or Toptal in the software/financial space. That lowers risk.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Other startups don’t but, like the Rails community, may one day find themselves asking What Do We Do When Apocalyptically Bad Things Happen On Our Framework of Choice? Mostly, I sell software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Jez, who is a principal at ThoughtWorks, co-author of the Jolt Award-winning Continuous Delivery and the forthcoming Lean Enterprise , will address one of the thorniest areas of Lean Startup: how to reduce cycle times by constantly releasing updated software to customers and quickly responding to their feedback.

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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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Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. As always, Paul is right.

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PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

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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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Using the framework Should these principles be a driving framework for self organizing teams, or should there be formal process or governance around it? agile software development. (46). product management. (23).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

We just need to give them tools, frameworks, and right encouragement. They take on many priorities—for example, working on 3 product development projects simultaneously—and then work hard to accomplish all of them, which means they cannot go all in and obsess over a few things. “Do

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software. email blast software. But thatâ??s

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The goal of the market definition canvas is to help innovators uncover the job-to-be-done as perceived by the customer , not the product developer. Other products used and their functions. What other products do people use in conjunction with the product? What “job” does each of the other products get done?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 1, 2022

ABZ Planning creates a framework for thinking like an entrepreneur about your career: place small bets, maneuver in response, change course if necessary, and always have a back-up plan. My Plan B was to build new software. Success in the software industry also meant “impact”—but on a much broader scale than academia.

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Framework Software Product Development Internet 69

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. And its incredibly to-the-point: you can digest this book in a couple of hours.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development. I was wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

The only efforts a new product team should be expending are those that lead to validated learning about customers. In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework. Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Stick to the Framework.

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