Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That lets you learn the flaws in your design much earlier. Does that inform everything from the start, or does it come in after you’ve identified a problem to solve with a product you’ll build? it could also cost your business real money at a crucial early moment in its life. ” decision.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In fact, some of the biggest company expenses start off as cost-cutting measures. Cutting costs vs. cutting corners. It can also be a result of second-rate cost-reduction tactics. Are you cutting costs or merely cutting corners? Are you cutting costs or merely cutting corners? Have you been making the same mistake?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

The same rule applies to product and app development. Launching a new product can be costly, but adding features to a successful existing product can be even more costly if the additions take away from your product’s unique focus. Professionalisms Adam Root Hiplogiq product development startup'

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries. But don’t give up!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Sales people cost money, and when they’re not bringing in revenue, their wandering in the woods is time consuming, cash-draining and demoralizing. Who recommends a sale?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Startup founders counting the days until break-even or actively seeking outside capital must focus on streamlining their development cycles. Full treatment of product components and functions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. We couldn’t cut product development (we had 23 people!) because we had made product commitments to a large customer who was about to agree to a nationwide rollout. The company incinerated cash. Or I was asked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Even though it usually makes sense from a marketing perspective for a startup to stage software rollout to various locales, it makes no sense to design and implement your application that way. Late translation will uncover design issues that are expensive to fix, and the inherent time delays and testing can set back delivery up to six months.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain. Decide on what actually you need to have a more detailed vision on how much it will cost you. Working hours.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. It costs money. Its mission —“to be Earth’s most customer-centric company”—depends on understanding and resolving online shoppers’ pain points, whether through web design tweaks or free-and-fast delivery. When you want to fine-tune your design by testing prior decisions.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. The founders. China has simply become the factory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Mind-expanding for new entrepreneurial opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

Also known as a system on module, SOM offers companies a unique strategy when it comes to developing products while keeping customizability fully possible. Using SOM is perfect for system designers who’re interested in having customization of the interface, form factor, and other electronic components.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It’s hard to believe these are the methods and tools of a profession designed to attract and persuade us to become customers — especially when “we the buyers” increasingly ignore them. What makes this particularly significant, of course, is that 3M’s product developers are among the most innovative in the world.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Graphic designers and illustrators are no longer considered a starving artist and computer network technicians are keeping the tech companies running. Much of this was attributed to the low cost of living.

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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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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. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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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

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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in Product Development/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The cost of running a business today can be financially exhausting for companies that range from the simplest startups to the most well-established corporations. Fortunately, developers and tech companies are creating solutions that help businesses reduce operating expenses while simplifying their processes. Go 100% Paperless.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Timing is crucial in product development. A pivotal stage in this progression involves crafting prototypes to authenticate and enhance designs before proceeding with production. This also speeds up new product development , saving companies time, resources, and money.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

As a developer, the features we dropped seem like a necessity from day 1. Not automating this process creates the ongoing repetitive work that computers are designed to handle. After your product launch. Point #1: Developing a Proof of Concept. And the cost is negligible. Iteration vs. Automation. Case Studies.

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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. Website Gone are the days of paying thousands of dollars for someone to code in a slow-loading site with a blocked design and barely legible fonts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Even though it usually makes sense from a marketing perspective for a startup to stage software rollout to various linguistic groups, it makes no sense to design and implement your application that way. Note that this will require close and trusted cooperation between engineering/development and each localization group.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. 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”).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2016

New technologies emerge daily and bring ingenious products to the world. It’s generally accepted to praise developers and designers for bringing these products to life but there is usually someone else behind the concepts and ideas. Product managers should also understand the company’s goals. necessary product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

As a result, repeating any of the following 10 mistakes outlined here won’t get you any credit for intelligence and learning and will cost you dearly in your funding credibility and real cash. As an active angel investor and startup advisor, I’ve seen many of the same stumbling blocks repeated all too many times.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

Creating a well-designed product that’s a hit with users takes a lot of hard work, not to mention a little strategy and luck. There’s a reason 70% of all acquisitions fail : When leaders feel pressure to grow for growth’s sake, their focus on results (no matter the cost) isn’t sustainable in the long run.

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