The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Taking an agile approach to project management means taking large tasks and splitting them into smaller tasks, as well as finding ways to be more innovative. Moreover, an agile approach frees up management to give more attention to strategy and less to micromanaging employees and projects. What It Means for HR to Be Agile.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

For nearly every organization that has grown beyond a very early stage startup, one of the most common, yet difficult, questions is the optimal way to split up the product work. As soon as you have more than one product manager, or more than one interaction designer, teams face this question. Clear Ownership.

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SCRUM Product Architecture Technical Review 63

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). Given our backgrounds, we often get asked about what makes the tech scene in Los Angeles different from that in the Valley.

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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!) Joels Painless Bug Tracking is still the gold standard.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 12, 2012

I continue to be fascinated with the changing art of product management. I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun. For more on this topic, you can follow the HBS class blog (we do not have a final exam - just blogging!): Launching Technology Ventures. on the topic. Intelligent.ly

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

In my last article I discussed the role of the leader of the product organization. I want every product leader to feel considerable urgency and importance around this need. I want every product leader to feel considerable urgency and importance around this need. How current is his technology knowledge?

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Developer Product Technical Review SCRUM 67

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Putting the product/service on the market early. Adding to product/service in small, frequent iterations. As you can see, most of these are quite common for the startup ecosystem, either due to the specific realities of the marketplace or due to the progressive mindset that most startup founders exhibit. How Big Are You?

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. Not, ‘what's the technology?’

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

The competitive, oversaturated market pushes companies to seek better ways to manage workload and optimize the working process to strive for continuous improvement and client satisfaction. It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. Productivity may be a concern if you are working on multiple tasks simultaneously.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

In this post, I'll focus on a few keys to helping co-founders work together to build a better product. A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. Discuss.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I can send you more links to more information about our product if needed.” In the past, we’ve assumed that potential customers would always arrive at our website after Googling a specific search term, and we’d make them “aware” of a problem and how our product solves this problem. The conceptual level.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. To a paid product, so that we can actually become a sustainable business, and I think we’re hitting some sort of analysis process.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Girls in Tech. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management.

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