Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

Prior to starting Ozmo both Ming and I worked in a design house creating new and better products. Throughout my five years of experience in product development, I realized that most of product launch failure could have been avoided by getting the product right earlier on, or understanding the limit of the maker.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Some, on the contrary, say that the modern user is already experiencing app fatigue and that people tend to use just three apps at most , so competing for desktop attention still remains easier. Learn more about validating your business idea and product concept here. As a new business owner, you may be overwhelmed by the choice.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing – crowdspring.co/1jqLtKQ. Good insight on startups and product development in this AMA with Jason Fried – crowdspring.co/TmVP1. “A Minimum Viable Product doesn’t count in SaaS – it has to be a Minimum Sellable Product.” Solar has won.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

He had a laser-like focus on his key for-profit segment, but then some high-profile people approached him to extend this to a non-profit area. Many people become competent at a professional skill, then they stop improving—good enough is good enough, it seems. I recently spoke with a founder of an online education marketplace.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The trick then is figuring out what your exact solution is, and whether or not there will be demand for it on a scale beyond just yourself, or whether or not you’ll be able to compete, if you’re entering an already-flooded market, like the shampoo market. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA). We’ll talk more about this in step three.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Your investors, the smart ones at least, are certainly making decisions the other way among competing deals. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. How about your Investors ?

Technical Review 48

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Too often people abandon their ethics because “hey the other guys is doing it, I have to to do it to compete.&#

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application. A book that covers product development (quite specific).

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

Potential acquirers can enter due diligence to learn your trade secrets and then launch a competing product. In most non-cofounder cases, when you get screwed, the correct response is to complain about it over a beer, avoid working with that person again, and move on. After all, they knew the product better than anyone.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Carlos Eduardo Espinal is a partner at Seedcamp , an early stage mentoring and investment program that engages startups through monthly Seedcamp Events, where entrepreneurs present their companies, network, receive mentoring, and compete for investment by Seedcamp. Seedcamp invests in approximately 20 companies annually.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. September 10, 2009 4:37 AM Dale B.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. I loved to compete against these companies.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

We thought that would give us enough credibility to bring someone on board and enough money to even compete, at least in the short term, with some of the other salaries. that are a good place for non-tech people to start off with ? Michael Horn Great survey of realistic options for non-techies who want to start web companies.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. Customers remember that they received the notification and this impacts their behavior as well as the positioning of the product. Luckily, a great example of the power of positioning fell into my lap recently.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Just make sure to not violate any non-competes, etc, in the process! More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted. Of course, do not use any of your employer’s resources.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One way to make an affiliate-ad based revenue stream work is to have access to unique products that no one else online is trying to sell. This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One way to make an affiliate-ad based revenue stream work is to have access to unique products that no one else online is trying to sell. This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

For other products, customers are generally shopping for virtual goods in some kind of catalog. If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. If you go this route, be prepared to make a long-term investment in the skill of merchandising.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. This doesn’t make sense.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people. In sports, you always want to play and compete at the stage that is right for you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Business growth comes from improving one of these five “knobs”: More stuff means adding products or services, preferably those you know your customers want so you don’t waste time building things they won’t use or buy. For intrapreneurs, this means applying Lean methods to new product development, rather than starting an entirely new company.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. Limit the cost/burden of non-paying users to the short trial period. (We

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He correctly identifies the three disciplines that have to be represented in a balanced and collaborative manner: developer, designer, distributer. Note: in a non-tech environment these would be R&D, product development, and sales/marketing. That will encompass a competent team.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Ruby on Rails lacks a CMS with the mindshare of, say, WordPress, which is good, because every unpatched Ruby on Rails CMS delivered to a non-technical company to serve as their website or backend to their mobile application will be compromised. Every publicly accessible Redmine instance which is not patched will be compromised.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

questions and answers for non-programmers. Great for visualizing work of product development. Cloudomatic. The Toolkbox. Batchbooks. Market Research. LaunchRock. Google Insights. Keyword Research. Google Keywords. Wordtracker. Traffic Research. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *.

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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. The next question you may have is what is the definition of market. This is just a general framework, and there will always be one-off adjustments to be made.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. P.S. Do #1.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Usually there are different segments that are loyal for different, even competing, reasons. One quibble, I think we have to be careful not to think about the community as a homogeneous group. I saw the post by the Second Life resident about this post and would have to say that Linden Lab is in a no-win situation.

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