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10 Concrete Steps to Assure Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Innovation teams perform best when they trust that failure or a pivot will not result in punitive measures.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.

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Ten Principles Which Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Innovation teams perform best when they trust that failure or a pivot will not result in punitive measures.

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Ten Steps to Survival by Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Innovation teams perform best when they trust that failure will not result in punitive measures. Accountability.

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The Company Milestones Angel Investors Care About

Business Plan Blog

Product Development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with just your pre-seed, FFF capital. You will also need proposals for the cost to develop the minimum viable product (the features that allow the product to be deployed).

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How To Allocate Friends & Family Startup Capital

Business Plan Blog

A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards product development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with your FFF capital. If not, at the bare minimum you will need an interactable wireframe mockup that demonstrates the product.