Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Take a closer look at how you manage your company. It’s important to review policies before and after implementing them. A study by the Harvard Business Review showed that companies take a bigger risk by chasing third-party experts instead of developing the team they already have. Have you been making the same mistake?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Studying an online business analytics masters is one way you can up your numbers game; whether this is the finance, marketing, or product development aspects of your company, the course can supply you with the tools, means, and knowledge to streamline your company operations. Being a Better Leader. Reducing Your Overheads.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. 3- Create a unique product. Thanks to Jen Ohlson, Interactive Health Technologies ! #5- Due to business, I am free to spend my time and money as I see fit. the golden era of technology.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

Technology has become so disruptive in the business world that sometimes its exact purpose can be forgotten. . From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. AppToolKit: An App monitor and Website builder.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2018

Medtech startups are big money in today’s marketplace, producing high-value solutions for healthcare, ranging from health records software to genetic testing and diabetes management devices. And for non-FDA track products, there’s no requirement that companies fix technology vulnerabilities. The Problem Of Prevention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System. Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. With more of us working from home and placing more demands on our bandwidths, faster internet with increased capacity for file sharing and uninterrupted Zoom conversations is the natural next step. 20- Technology will reduce employment.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Thanks to Shaun Connell, Rental Property Calculator ! #4-

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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. This is the approach of test-driven-development (TDD).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Without further ado.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? General Management. Industrial research management. What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. But LEGO took a smarter approach.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Being a female entrepreneur in the tech world shows just how innovation works. And I am proud to be a successful female entrepreneur in the tech industry. For Greenback, this means working remotely, cutting back on meetings, and building strong systems that reduce the need for management oversight. Thanks to Benjamin Parks ! #5-

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. As a technical fix, it was brilliant.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Objectively reviewing your finances is important, and this is a prerequisite to creating a forecast. Communication (telephone, internet). Things like product development, materials and packaging, performance-based bonuses, and more. Follow trends and emerging technologies and keep an eye on what your competition is doing.

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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. Let me quote an example that I used recently: Remember IMVUs initial IM add-on product?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. Although many of the non-technical folks in the room didnt understand what was happening in the moment, plenty of hackers were on high alert. If thats true, its primarily due to your hard work, building companies and testing new ideas. We all owe you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. Safely because it is clear that the manager in question didnt do his homework. Leave a comment or reply to someone else.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2015

Whether it’s at work researching and managing my clients , at home browsing my favorite blogs and shopping, or on the go using Uber and Google Maps , I usually always have a way to access the Internet. Bounce rates have exceedingly increased, due to the lack of an experience. I spend a lot of time online.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Recent economic events, technological change, and the rapid diffusion of information about the old models have combined to help us all realize just how important entrepreneurship is - and just how little we really know about it. My success is due in no small part to their early and enthusiastic endorsement.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. There are too many products clamoring for attention. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Id like to talk about a technique Ive used to help manage this growth without slowing down. Playing with new technologies. Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Seeing whats possible. Building and testing prototypes.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 17, 2010

You probably think of "tech support" as the bottom of the food chain. After all: Tech support deals with insane customers. Tech support answers the phone; a job even salesmen don't want. Tech support keeps angry customers at bay while having no power to effect change. Tech support is sales. Yep, that sounds lowly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. So when we start checking in code more often, release more often, or conduct more frequent design reviews, we can actually do a lot to make those steps dramatically more efficient. Interesting post. February 21, 2009 4:10 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Of course, every business has it’s own unique context and what is relevant to crowdSPRING may not be relevant to your business, but in your own situation a review of these is ever timely. Product : What exactly is it that you are selling and to whom? Does your product provide value? Solve a problem? A shopping mall?

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