This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. Let’s call these tasks “Some outsourced crap the team shouldn’t be thinking about.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But it seemed strange to me that we would openly talk about stuff rather than waiting for a big announcement to the press. So I started thinking about the “Inside Out&# organization.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Before you can develop a marketing strategy, you need to know who you’re marketing to. At this point, you probably have a solid understanding of your target audience and who you want to do business with, but what about the rest of your team? Of course, most startups are all about product development and launch.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

No matter what a business owner needs an app for — accounting, communication, brainstorming, compliance, financial transactions, employee evaluations, advertising & promotions, collaborations, creativity, management, PR, customer relations, eCommerce, web design — there’s an app for that, and it’s probably free. The answer is automation.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, the shape of the curve—the length of the arc and the speed of the decline—is also determined by how you market that product at each stage of its life. In this article, we’ll look at the different stages of the product lifecycle through the lens of marketing. Before introduction comes development. Introduction.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. Then one day it was over.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

The inspiration behind Ozmo was the realization about the importance of hydration and how everyone takes it for granted. After seeing the negative effects of dehydration, both me and my co-founder, Ming, decided that we want to spread knowledge about hydration and create a product that could help with this problem.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. The other couples laughed for about half a second expecting my friend’s wife to do so as well. Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design. Mitch knows a thing or two about building a hypergrowth startup: Lotus sold $54 million of 1-2-3 in its very first year.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla and Elon Musk’s role – something many want to do, given the constant stream of headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20 th Century. When Sloan became President of General Motors in 1923, it was already a $700 million company (about $10.2

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Furthermore, when faced with adversity only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. Typically, these hires fall into 2 buckets: product development and sales. Don’t hire people with skills and qualifications similar to yours.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Megan takes a very creative approach in talking about a serious subject – spousal abuse (based on the recent events surrounding football player Ray Rice). Hiring startup engineers?

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

’’ Diversity hiring is not about ticking boxes in checklists or having all groups represented whatever the definition might be across different geographies around the world. All this changed for good when it became known that neurodiverse people can be super talented mathematicians, artists, engineers or software developers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

1) Can you tell me more about your audience? Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Although every organization faces some uncertainty in developing new stuff, the conditions are not always extreme.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. Product launch) In todays world, there is no reason you have to do these two things at the same time. Do some Customer Development instead.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It must cross boundaries, working cooperatively with other divisions in your business such as sales, marketing, social media, PR, product development, and the like. Without strong, hands-on executive support from a powerful leader who is passionate about advocacy, none of this will happen.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Even though many states have reopened following initial shutdowns, some are reimposing restrictions, reigniting fears about cash flow and small business survival. Thanks to Kevin Burke, Extension PR ! #7- Companies will also be able to simplify product. At some point soon, Apple will upgrade the laptop cameras too.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Blogs/ press – to get consumers to learn about your new app, PR remains a viable source, especially when it comes to buzzy/social apps. ProductHunt/ Reddit/ Directories – another form of PR/social media, directories of new products and forums solicit feedback from users and contribute to discovery.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Books, papers, and essays have been written about the way Toyota handles its manufacturing processes. Called the Toyota Production System, it is one of the success stories about the lean manufacturing process. The practices have long been admired as a model for other companies to follow.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good short read dispelling productivity myths about employee performance – [link]. Everything I Learned About Social Media I Learned In Kindergarten – [link].

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

As brand awareness and interest increased, many people scrambled for an invite to see what all the excitement was about. Your brand (and product) should be easily recognizable no matter the channel you’re promoting it on. Contact editors and news agencies to get an article or press release published about your launch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good insight on startups and product development in this AMA with Jason Fried – crowdspring.co/TmVP1. Design Basics – Learn About Color Theory – crowdspring.co/1pWZoXr.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Instead, we try to accelerate with respect to validated learning about customers. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. Instead, how about a test where we completely change the value proposition on the landing page?

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San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way. We know some products succeed and others fail, but the reasons are complex and the unpredictable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. And heres the amazing thing about this plan: it actually worked. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Mission accomplished.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! All About jQuery: Plugins, Tutorials and Resources – [link]. Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I think the salient question to ask about any business model is: what is the primary driver of growth? Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2018

Everything flows from it, including strategy, operations, staffing, team building, product development, branding and PR. It’s the first question a potential investor will ask you about and the first thing a consumer will want to know before buying your product. A USP is the True North of any successful venture.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. But the cost of PR and marketing is going to outstrip that within a couple of months of being up and running!

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

How do you feel when it takes months or a week for a PR to be resolved compared to hours or days? It’s not just about moving fast and breaking things; it is about having the right systems and processes in place to support this way of working. Think about the tools in place to quickly resolve incidents when something fails.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

As part of The Magill Report’s Online Entrepreneur column, I’d like to share some of Return Path’s learning about how to stay innovative as you grow. In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams.

Software Review 67

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. Create your minimum viable product.

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viniciusvacanti.com

APRIL 2, 2012

This is a really smart way of thinking about startups. In fact, many of those early users enjoyed seeing our product develop. We should have just been worrying about getting our first 1,000 users. Investors like to see the progress you make as a product and as a team. I was believer. That’s it.

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