Advisory Board Hiring Product Development 
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 3, 2012
There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. The proactive solution is to hire sparingly, and spend the time and effort needed to hire existing experts in all cases.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 20, 2011
There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. The proactive solution is to hire sparingly, and spend the time and effort needed to hire existing experts in all cases.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 12, 2010
There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. The proactive solution is to hire sparingly, and spend the time and effort needed to hire existing experts in all cases.
betashop.com
OCTOBER 8, 2012
I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. The most important hiring criteria for your executives is cultural fit. As CEO, you are responsible for every hire.
Steve Blank
JULY 29, 2013
(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). If any of the answers are “Yes,” then hire them a bit later as an early employee.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. Many companies seek to involve customers directly in the creation of their products.
Business Plan Blog
DECEMBER 10, 2013
Product Development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with just your pre-seed, FFF capital. You will also need proposals for the cost to develop the minimum viable product (the features that allow the product to be deployed).
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