Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost. Customer support chasm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost. Customer support chasm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost. Customer support chasm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products. You need to give them advance notice of your product development or better yet let them help influence your direction. You need to give them “back stage&# passes to your company.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs. This includes the design, development, launch, and enhancement of the SaaS application. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost. Customer support chasm.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tailoring your marketing message to the audience most likely to purchase your products is an art that includes some instinct that verges on the magical. Making use of tech’s best product development, content creators, and security firms to combat data breaches is the best way to move forward in your industry.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Harder still, some industries are dry, traditional, or “boring,” which are more challenging to market than industries with quirky, exciting, or visually striking products. For example, 2-layer vs. 4-layer printed circuit boards appeal to a niche audience. Choose your Market Audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2017

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost. Customer support chasm.

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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. I know this sounds foreign to many of you, and that we’ll have a few skeptics in the audience. For readers of this blog, Steve needs no introduction.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. Researching your audience.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2017

Consider the marketing and product development required to walk through each step. You can brainstorm cost-effective marketing strategies that allow you to reach your target audience without spending a fortune. Each business has a unique target audience, so carefully review the best ideas for reaching your target audience.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Most startup companies address a wide market and thus cater to a diverse audience, and these types of companies benefit from a team that brings myriad experiences and viewpoints to the table.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Sure, Id be delighted to.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

Investment in Growth: Allocate funds strategically to areas that promote growth, such as marketing, product development, and talent acquisition. Digital Marketing: Leverage digital platforms such as social media, SEO, and email marketing to reach your target audience. Positive cash flow is essential for business expansion.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Wrong message, wrong audience. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Most startup companies address a wide market and thus cater to a diverse audience, and these types of companies benefit from a team that brings myriad experiences and viewpoints to the table.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

Because that’s the audience they’ve dedicated to serving, which happens to be a segment of the market that nobody else was directly talking to when they first launched. They developed features with their specific audience in mind. Amazon gift vouchers) unless you know your audience responds well to them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

(for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

In some places a marketing career position might mean real access to product development, business strategy and eventual management roles; in others marketing is little more than acting as a wage slave for the sales team. No, marketing was not for me.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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”. Ironically, for this new audience that makes the next generation of Lean – the Innovation Pipeline – more relevant than ever.

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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. You can give advice about applying Lean Startup ideas to business areas other than product development.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 7, 2025

After paying R&D costs, product development, packaging, staff costs, and more, start-ups often look for ways to market and scale on a relatively tight budget. Press articles and other earned media gain trust, and businesses can leverage their existing audiences. Launching a new business and brand is no easy feat.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

You might find your audience is a little off from whom you were targeting or that your audience thinks your product is overpriced. Remaining adaptable and responding appropriately to the feedback with new product developments, updates, or new marketing strategies can only appeal more business. To Round It Up.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

In a way, you can think of BD as “sales when you don’t know what the product is yet.” It’s basically working with potential outside partners to reach your business goals--which could be revenue, distribution, financing, product development, awareness, etc. And what is a good user experience?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences. In my experience, the majority of changes we made to products have no effect at all on customer behavior. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

When consumers make purchasing decisions, the choice is more driven by how they feel about your brand than what they know about your product. Their predominantly male audience has a problem: fitting a full wallet into their back pocket. They use product marketing techniques to target and educate their customers. Image Source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2024

This approach allows startups to allocate their budget more efficiently, investing in other critical areas such as product development, sales, and customer support. They may lack sufficient data, resources, or expertise to effectively reach and engage their niche audiences. Why are CMOs paid so much salary?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

An MVP, an acronym from a Minimal Viable Product refers to a simplified version of the product. Its functionality and interface are enough to fulfill the main need and capture audience interests. MVP is a stripped-down version of a product with functional features and interface, enough to test the idea. Why use an MVP?

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

hoping to scoop up that small percentage of your audience who is ready to buy. You’ve completed customer research for your product development and positioning strategy. Once you’ve created your list of potential themes, test them in front of your audience. an ebook); Then you blast them with sales messaging (e.g.,

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. When it comes to attracting views and engaging an audience, visual material is imperative.

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