Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Frustration is mounting.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2015

It is quite difficult to create an effective brand management team, especially for small or mid-sized firms. It is great to notice that business managers understand how important it is to invest in the online image of a firm but actually managing to do this properly is complicated. Brand Management Organization And Structure.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

As a startup advisor and angel investor, I tend to focus on the much longer list of ways your startup can fail, based on my own experience and inside knowledge from peers who you will never see highlighted on the Internet. If you don’t have all these interests and skills, even your most “disruptive” products will likely fail.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2013

Almost all new business owners will have to make an initial investment in the technological aspect of production and everyday business activities. Cell phones, laptops for traveling employees and website development will have to be included among the technological costs, as well. Product Development and Marketing.

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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.

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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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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). And I had more than 20 1:1 meetings with founders, angels, emerging fund managers and institutional VC funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2020

It means that we’re looking at a generation of people who have to learn the basics of productivity for themselves. The majority end up in what authors call the “grey zone” – a state of mind that is not particularly productive. . For many, it’s a massive challenge. .

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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. To understand how medtech products come to market, it’s important to understand that there are actually two separate sectors involved.

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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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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Product development process. Manage human resources. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Take a closer look at how you manage your company. Remember: an organization is only as efficient and productive as the people in it. Let’s take switching from landline to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) as an example. Skipping brand or product promotions. Have you been making the same mistake?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? My explicit goal in working with HBR is to foster a dialog between entrepreneurs and more traditional general managers. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Without further ado.

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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. Yet with so many stock images available on the Internet, more and more low quality, boring images seep into search engines. . AppToolKit: An App monitor and Website builder.

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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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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. How do you know you have it? Lose focus.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

3- Create a unique product. My wife Erin and I started our business as we needed a product that did not exist. My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries. Thanks to Ksenia Yudina, UNest ! #3- Photo credit: Chris and Erin Leake.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The rise of the internet, advancements in digital technology, and the growth of social media platforms have fundamentally transformed the way businesses function and engage with their customers. With the availability of resources like a bachelor of business management online , learning has become more accessible than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. Apr 27 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Hibernia Atlantics network of subsea cables provides some of the worlds best internet connections. This is a combination of applied research and new product development. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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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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SVPG

JANUARY 23, 2012

Occasionally in my work with technology product teams around the world, I run into product managers that are still practicing the role as it used to be defined back in the PC era of technology. Perhaps the old role has been institutionalized in a formal corporate product development process.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. In the beginning, when I was fundraising, I felt as if I needed to go the extra step to showcase my product and to illustrate that this was more than a side hustle or an impulse startup. 1- Flexibility.

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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. He was building a better enterprise software product, and to get the word out, he organized ‘City Tour’ events and neighborhood ‘street teams.’

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. The last three months have been pleasantly insane.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Will your product serve better as a mobile app (which offers a better experience on mobile, yet needs to be installed and can be deleted on a whim), or a web app (immediately accessible at any time, yet less simple to navigate from a handheld gadget)? What is your product goal? Validate your product concept with an MVP.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Prezi hired the former director of product from Pixar to build a more cinematic video meeting experience. 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. Photo Credit: Kevin Burke.

Software Review 122

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Everyone was in the flow; the team was hyper-productive. In many cases, they did the impossible, building a new product faster, cheaper, and better than anyone could have predicted.

Software Review 141

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Michael Pryor is the CEO of Trello, a cloud-based project management tool. Thanks to Tiffany Payne, Replace Your Docs ! #9- 9- Discord. Photo Credit: Garrett Hayes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. Being a manager didnt sound fun - deep down, who really wants to be held accountable for other peoples actions? So I wound up learning the discipline of managing other people.

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