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How Startups Can Keep Product Development Lean

YoungUpstarts

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. This subtle difference has been key to the success of companies like Groupon, Dropbox and Intuit to name a few. This environment makes it difficult to understand the core skills needed in the product development team.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. The name To Tony Productions is a dedication to my cousin and close friend Anthony Ranoiccha III, or Tony, as the family would call him.

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Beyond the.COM! New Domain Names Are Perfect For SMBs And Startups

YoungUpstarts

One of the first and most important decisions any CEO, founder, or startup is going to make is what to name the company. And for years, entrepreneurs struggled between their desire for the perfect name and a rapidly diminishing supply of.COM domains. If you couldn’t get that.COM then the business would be named something else.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s bookings have rebounded to roughly 70-80% of what they were in 2019 pre-COVID whereas global hotel companies like Marriott and Hilton are operating at roughly 35-40% of where they were in fall 2019. But even with this profitable Q3, on a trailing twelve months (TTM) basis Airbnb has a GAAP net loss of >$1 billion.

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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

Another paradigm is the ACL (Access Control List), which lists all of the operations that a particular user is allowed to conduct. Assurance of Quality The testing stage of the software product development process is vital. Role-based access control (RBAC) is a method for creating and organizing permissions.

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Critical Tips to Developing an Effective Marketing Strategy for Startups in “Boring” Industries

ReadWriteStart

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. Of course, brands do use assets like logos, colors, fonts, voices, and names to accomplish this, in part. Choose a Brand Name.

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