Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. General Motors had 20%.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

by Nick Candito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Time and time again, there’s one critical component that hampers productivity and efficiency: We are wired to work within the confines of organizational silos. Contact centers are closely tied with marketing, sales, shipping and even product development.

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Cofounder Technical Review Operations Employee 174

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit."

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes. Honestly, we don’t know.”?

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Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

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! Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Bootstrapping 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. Market Research. In this stage, you will also search the market to check if your idea is viable.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

I came up with my company's name by envisioning what my company represents and that is an alpha level of customer service and training for me and my agents. We want our clients to feel like out of all the shopping they have done online they finally reached the top of their journey in securing the right product for their families.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. pexels A war chest is virtually always a competitive edge in all aspects that count, including employing key staff, public relations, marketing, and sales.

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Seed Stage Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence 122

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. AskAnything.VC

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 31, 2013

Picking a partner or co-founder isn't like finding a new friend. This is really hard to do while the parties are striving to get the new business off the ground, with a sense of mission, passionate about the business concept and the market need they are addressing. You think about it ahead of time! Let me give you an example.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. If you are building an innovative company, you will have to spend a good chunk of your time on customer discovery. Here are three tips for you based on my discussions with entrepreneurs who have come before you: Take Time to Understand the Needs and Expectations of Your Customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. You can imagine how well that worked. On the plus side, that means its a great deal. I think theyve succeeded.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

times more likely to spend more than one standard deviation above the average on customer acquisition. Inconsistent startup outsource 4-5 times as much of their product development than consistent startups. In the validation phase, where startups should be testing demand for a functional product, inconsistent startups are 2.2

Silicon Valley 189

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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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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

.&# They know instinctually how customers buy and how to excite them. They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. You can practically hear the “voice of the customer&# when they’re presenting their concept. He was at a startup that was in a super hot sector.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate Cofounder Sales 306

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” The conversation will be free-ranging, and it will include live Q&A with attendees, so we don’t know exactly what will happen.

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Lean Engineer Startup Cofounder 167

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. Kelsey Meyer , Influence & Co. Their answers are below. Cross Train Members.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Developer Agile 129

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Transcript of Bringing Marketing and Product Development Together written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: This episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. John Jantsch: Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast.

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Product Development Product Developer Marketing 31

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). Will you be able to think up alternative products? in ten years?

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Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

The Startup Magazine

MAY 8, 2024

The best part of being a startup, though, is your ability to be more flexible and nimble to meet the evolving and specialized needs of your market. Instead of calling yet another “ideation session” with your product team, use the following tips to instantly innovate for increased revenues with the least amount of effort and wrong turns: 1.

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Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Demand Lean 88

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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Forecast Software Review Lean Finance 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 1, 2012

This is a choice that every startup founder must make , so I’d like to dig in deeper. To clarify the discussion, let’s use a simpler model: Companies A and B both sell products with recurring monthly revenue, and both brought in $10,000 in revenue last month. Company A has 1,000 customers each paying $10/mo.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. As part of my initial customer outreach and research phases, I personally (not over a phone call, social media, or a landing page) met with over 600 potential partners (recycling centers and local businesses).

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Technical Review Distribution Redemption Demand 96

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

“You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture. Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest. 8) Angry Birds.

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