The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

The 10-week programme gives start-ups the opportunity to trial their products at scale and work closely with senior management and experts across the Group. You can test your most promising products and services with the IAG customers. Product development input. Gain vital know-how by accessing real customer data.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

by Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund. On the other hand, if you arrive at a VC pitch without a comprehensive understanding of the industry you’re hoping to compete in, or without a clear path to profitability or a thoughtful product-development road map, you’ll likely leave empty-handed.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. When we interview managers, one of our standard questions is “How do you think about code quality?” Above all, the purpose of product development is to create value for customers. Value to customers.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Engineer Technical Review 100

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

At V1, we have had the privilege to sit on many of our portfolio companies’ boards from (pre-)seed to Series B (and beyond). We actively help each portfolio company manage their changing priorities as they grow. To this end, you want to focus your investments on those things that will get you closer to product-market fit.

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

” "The company cares about what the leader cares about" - I attribute this to Bill Campbell, the product legend known as the Coach of Silicon Valley, and I argue this applies not just to the CEO, but also to the product managers (the team cares about what the product manager cares about).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. Wasn’t something fundamentally wrong with the way everyone organizes and manages startups? We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. These aging products, developed in earlier times now represent bankrupt ideologies, weak paradigms and byzantine complexity. Communicate – The most important challenge in managing any large organization is communication.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Fear of failure can kill innovation.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). But there’s only one reason your company got funded. ——-. The Good News.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

We managed to automate 25% of our bookings and achieved higher ratings than before. In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. Thanks to John Pope, Jive Communications ! #2- 2- Automating bookings and higher ratings.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 85

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Fear of failure can kill innovation.

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Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 234

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

Some startups require lots of brainstorming sessions, networking, marketing, writing code, and product development in a race against time to be the first to the market. If your startup requires huge time commitments, it might not be feasible to juggle a job in the day and the startup at night.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Thatcher Bell was previously a “mentor VC” at Gotham Ventures and North Hill Ventures , and is now Managing Partner, CoVenture. He said, “First, the founders are their startup and define the company it will become. […] Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Accept has built a set of products for “innovation management&# and while I reflexively gag at the word “innovation&# when applied to large companies, I actually think Accept has the right approach for delivering a solution to the problem of connecting customers with product development.

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Software Portfolio Agile Retention 34

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Marketo competes with MarketBrite and Eloqua.

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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. Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Last week, one of our newest portfolio companies, Abstract , launched their Private Alpha. It helps with the “other half” of design work: managing changes/versions, documenting the work, and making sure everyone stays informed. We need help managing our work and how design relates to the rest of the organization.”.

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BeyondVC

MAY 30, 2007

In one portfolio company, we had some of the standard issues of coordinating product management with engineering and balancing sales requirements with engineering priorities. What is easy to roll out in a 5 person company gets harder to manage in a 25 person and even harder in a 50 person company.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. Our top goal is to break into new markets and add new products to our portfolio.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 22, 2021

They have one series that is targeting new fund managers (helps Carta bring in new fund administration customers) and one called Execute which tells the backstory of Carta. Above is a clip of me and Theo Miller, founder and CEO of Hit Start Media, having a lively discussion about the role of data and instinct in product development.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

Nic Brisbourne is Managing Partner at Forward Partners, the UK’s leading early-stage VC, currently supporting the UK’s next generation of AI, e-commerce and marketplace businesses. At Forward Partners, we’ve invested massively in a team of people to support our portfolio companies – a bigger investment than any other fund in the UK.

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Partner Early Stage Portfolio Metrics 68

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

It’s this elusive quality that helps organizations achieve more volume and value in their innovation portfolio. But innovation comes in many other forms and should be thought of in a portfolio fashion. An organization’s value proposition needs to evolve about every three to five years at today’s pace. Absolutely!

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

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Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2013

They tend to be engineering heavy, key deliverables center around feature releases and sticking to a dev schedule and success is measured by the progress a business makes on building and releasing product vs. revenue generated from that product. Perhaps a sales person or community manager/user advocate is hired.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. These aging products, developed in earlier times now represent bankrupt ideologies, weak paradigms and byzantine complexity. Communicate – The most important challenge in managing any large organization is communication.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

www.tangosource.com

MARCH 8, 2012

re trying to create a new product as a non technical person, it might seem easy at first, until you start looking for real technical partners. As a software developer turned business developer, Â Eric has experience in product development, business development, project management, and user centered design.

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Cofounder Founder SEO LLC 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Fear of failure can kill innovation.

Intellectual Property 122

Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 122

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

If you haven’t already, check out previous posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies , Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces , and B2B marketplace dynamics from Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich. Expand into different products. That new product now represents 35% of their business.

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San Francisco Vertical Equity Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

There is no digital device or development that Samsung doesn’t have in its portfolio. I was an idiot like so many others and thought Samsung’s strength is in its cheap, Asia-based production, but that can’t be it. For a Finnish manager, the way Samsung is run would be a real challenge.

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Las Vegas Cofounder Asia China 150

Transformify

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As a society, we are shifting to the gig economy due to the low capital that’s required to start a freelance business, the mass amount of information surrounding starting a freelance business and the wide variety of high-quality websites that allow freelancers to showcase their portfolio and grow their client base. Definitely.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We have a number of portfolio companies that are raising money. Adding some debt onto your balance sheet will lower your cost of capital and your dilution, which is better for existing investors and the management team. For example, I have huge respect and passion for product development and the role of the product manager.

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Balance Sheet Entrepreneur Dilution Portfolio 42

VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2013

They tend to be engineering heavy, key deliverables center around feature releases and sticking to a dev schedule and success is measured by the progress a business makes on building and releasing product vs. revenue generated from that product. Perhaps a sales person or community manager/user advocate is hired.

Sales 48

Sales Product Marketing Acquisition 48

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

If it’s the latter, they should be able to give you insightful feedback on how they might do things a bit differently; even if you don’t agree, you’ll get a glimpse of how they approach product development and problem-solving, which will tell you a lot about the people who you’re trusting with your baby.

Design 126

Design Search Networking Developer 126

37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Browse by visual style, portfolio, budget, and geographic location. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be.

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Product Name Naming Product Software Review 44

BeyondVC

JANUARY 2, 2006

All too often we are enamored with how cool or sexy a technology is, invest lots of dollars to create that killer product, and sometimes forget that it is all about the people. For cash starved startups, having management and employees believing in the opportunity and team and being motivated by equity is key to success.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220