TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

It plays a crucial role in product development too, where generative AI speeds up design processes, streamlines testing, and tailors user experiences effectively. By processing and analyzing large datasets, AI can identify emerging trends, enabling companies to align their product strategies with future market demands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

When I began developing the customer search engine SocialCentiv using Twitter, I envisioned the project as an add-on to our already popular SocialCompass. To determine whether there was real demand for SocialCentiv, I set out to collect some data. 3 Signs You Need a New Product, Not a Product Addition.

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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 Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. There''s always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be. Implement and enforce a change process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. There's always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be. Implement and enforce a change process.

Technical Review 241

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A few of the many quotations that struck me: “Most startups fail due not to the failure of product development but due to the lack of customers”. Learning and discovering who a company’s initial customers will be and what market they are in, requires a process separate and distinct from product development”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. Tech Association listed five tech jobs in high demand until 2021. The most sought-after hires are computer programmers and interactive media developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. There's always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be. Implement and enforce a change process.

Technical Review 187

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Later, as you scale the business, is the time to add products or service offerings that customers demand to make the business more robust. You need skills in finance, operations, and marketing to supplement product development, and more hours of work than one person can manage.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Did the VC’s like your team ?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Inconsistent startup outsource 4-5 times as much of their product development than consistent startups. In discovery phase 60% of inconsistent startups focus on validating a product and 80% of consistent startups focus on discovering a problem space.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Growth in business is always the objective but is your business primed and ready for a sudden influx of new order, higher service demand, new competition, and the myriad of challenges (and pains) of the rise? Here are but a few you and the business could stumble upon: 1.

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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. My original intention was to have a completely new lineup this year, but the popular demand for a few of our top speakers was overwhelming.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In circumstances like this, most firms call their legal departments and start issuing cease and desist demands. The result was an eightfold improvement in revenues from innovations developed with the help of such customers vs. innovations developed by 3M’s ordinary, internally developed process.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

The main reasons are: Ever-evolving Customer Base: From mobile phones to customised gadgets, from televisions to Desktop Computers, the consumer base is getting more diverse and assorted, with different age groups, genders, ethnicities, and races demanding different products and services.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

Investors, customers, regulators, and all key stakeholders are demanding more transparent corporate sustainability disclosures. To meet these demands, the historical practice of manually collecting this data does not scale and results in inefficient reporting that is difficult to audit and easily misrepresented.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

When we demand overwhelming customer outcry before committing to the slightest product change, we're in danger of losing the value of creating a cool feature that takes too much effort but people just love. Now sure, there are many of aspects of business and product development where it's best to stop obsessing and just cut corners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. These ideas can grow quickly into real products. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For those companies operating in a dynamic market driven by user behavior, for example, retail and eCommerce, staying trends-aware equals staying competitive by tailoring their offers to the specific demands and expectations. Creating a perfect-fit product or delivering the highest-end service leads to profit growth anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. There's always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be. Implement and enforce a change process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. What if customers actually like the “crap&# product? Good enough never is (or is it?)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Over demand led the SV Angel team to double the size of the fund to $20 million. Clients include Pepsi, Sony, CNN, Universal, AT&T, Victoria’s Secret and Facebook, which has used the service for multiple campaigns. Read more: Index Ventures and TechCrunch.

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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. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. This has led to exponential growth.

San Francisco 167

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. customer relationships to create demand. Lessons Learned.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. There''s always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be. Implement and enforce a change process.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Product Software Review Database 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? What if someone wanted to write their module in OOP style?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Rising consumer demand in China itself has also led its own manufacturers to favour selling domestically. To market to Muslims, companies could take note of the holy month of the Ramadan, offer halal products, develop shariah-compliant Islamic financial services, or create mobile apps.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Customers enjoy online shopping; their demands create enormous opportunities for eCommerce company’s growth. Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? Working hours.

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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.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2016

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. And this is the product manager who dictates the strategies and processes, controls the product’s lifecycle and ensures that it meets all the set demands.

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