Advisory Board and Product Development

8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Between Board Meetings.

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2020

sales to product development), the problems will continue to exist. An efficient way to facilitate this type of two-way communication is to organize customer sessions or quarterly CAB (customer advisory boards) that consist of a representative sample of an existing customer base.

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How to Survive Four Common Worst Case Scenarios

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. Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them.

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Four Common Startup Issues Which Threaten Survival

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. Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them.

Advisory Board

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Worst Case Survival Guide for Startups

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. Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Establish a customer advisory board. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Create a members-only forum where only qualified customers (perhaps, paying customers) can post. Let them connect with each other, but also with you. Hand pick a dozen customers who "get" your vision.

San Francisco

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders. Every startup should have at least quarterly meetings with an Advisory Board or key investors to bring a new perspective to what is working and what is not.

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Building Great Founding Teams

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.). A couple of caveats about founders with “ideas.”

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

.” In searching for product/market fit (the right match between value proposition and customer segment) the product should be the last part you think of changing – not the first – as the cost of upending your product development organization is high. Find a Brainstorm Buddy.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Organization, Communities or Associations they Belong to That Help Support Their Business

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The curriculum was comprehensive and covered a wide range of topics, from product development to fundraising. If you sign up, you'll have access to one-on-one mentoring, workshops led by industry professionals, and discussions with the advisory board. Thanks to Ethan Isaacson, LegalEase Citations !

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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. Use them as a sounding board for corporate development issues. Advisory boards never amount to much.

Technical Review

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Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process. You can invite them to be part of a 'customer advisory board&# that you can gather informal feedback from everything from company policies to new products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2009

pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a resp.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

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.

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[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

They can be relied on for feedback and initial sales; they’ll tell others about the product and spread the word that the vision is real. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) First. MVPs for Web/Mobile Are Different.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Or it might mean selling a few products on a site like eBay to see how well they perform before ordering in bulk from a wholesaler. What sets this approach apart from practices like using focus groups is that companies base product development decisions not just on what customers say they want but on how they vote with their wallets.

San Francisco

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The Company Milestones Angel Investors Care About

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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How To Allocate Friends & Family Startup Capital

Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards 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 your FFF capital. If not, at the bare minimum you will need an interactable wireframe mockup that demonstrates the product.

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ▼ October (7) A real Customer Advisory Board Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback. Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a resp.

San Francisco

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Seven Reasons Why Customer Reference Programs Fail

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. These may include references, referrals, testimonials, serving on advisory boards, and participating in your customer communities, he explains.

Programming

Programming Customer Social Media Advisory Board

Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). More than anything, it forced us to take advantage of necessity, the mother of invention. Heres what it looked like.

San Francisco

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ▼ October (7) A real Customer Advisory Board Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback. Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a resp.

San Francisco

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Innovation inside the box

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Why was a team this smart, this disciplined, and this committed to waste-free product development creating so much waste? Labels: split-test Innovation inside the box I was recently privy to a product prioritization meeting in a relatively large company. More importantly, the experience led to some soul-searching.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Simple online team or personal kanban board. Great for visualizing work of product development. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? project management visuallyÂ see and interact with your work. Kanbanery â?? LeanKit Kanban â?? Kanban Pad â?? Acunote â??

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Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ▼ October (7) A real Customer Advisory Board Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback. Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a resp.

San Francisco

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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