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How To Succeed As A Product Manager

YoungUpstarts

New technologies emerge daily and bring ingenious products to the world. It’s generally accepted to praise developers and designers for bringing these products to life but there is usually someone else behind the concepts and ideas. Product managers should also understand the company’s goals. necessary product.

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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product.

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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. We didnt think wed able to compete with that.

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

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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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product.

Burn Rate 310