Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Develop new venture models for tougher ecosystems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Develop new venture models for tougher ecosystems.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make. We did that for a lot of reasons.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

With funds you could maybe even consider outsourcing the development. Development agency Startya is a team of designers, developers and entrepreneurs with experience in building products for startups. And it’s probably far better than having no product at all. Startya wants to offer you an alternative.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant. Massacre at IBM.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g.

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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. Do you want the product, or does your target market want the product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The design also created problems. This information can be used to create archetypical models that communicate information about user types and how they are likely to respond to a product. These insights support goal-directed design and should be used throughout the entire creative process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In order to truly find success this must be matched by a development team that consistently strives to deliver truly life-bettering products and services that customers keep coming back for. Implementing technological upgrades that get your thoughtfully designed products to market is a must in today’s competitive corporate world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies. Startups can do anything.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? But a good developer could make it quicker.”. Werdelin equates building a successful product to building a nightclub. 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook.

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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 process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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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. MIT professor Eric von Hippel has coined the term “lead users” to describe them, and worked with 3M’s healthcare business to develop a system for finding them.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving. In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries. Mobile banking in developing countries. Examples of successful frugal innovations.

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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. Focus on Your Minimum Viable Product. Stay Lean and Low.

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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. Develop a software solution. Discuss the suitable tools with your development team. Hourly rate.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

Still, every article I read turns the creative process of business and product design into Vulcanian objectivity. Some developers wrote in asking how I was able to render it so efficiently. It was always a high point in product reviews. Tags: Essays design fun metrics persona philosophy productivity.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Develop your business plan. 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.

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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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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development. Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Iterative release.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. As a developer, the features we dropped seem like a necessity from day 1. So we tossed it.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. 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. Samsung found that television owners saw their sets as furniture and, therefore, valued sleek design.)

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. Let’s take sales and business development. The designer should be your third leg of the stool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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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.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

Almost every decision you make—what you sell, how much you sell it for, where you’re located, who you hire—is made with the intention of bringing in the maximum number of customers to your store, and to optimize the likelihood that they’ll buy your products while they’re there. a product that gets you customers).

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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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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2013

While marketers go gaga over social technologies and their impact on digital commerce, it is often our physical perceptions of a product which influence buying decisions. The challenge, however, is this: How can we design our products, advertisements and experiences such that they push the right sensory buttons in our consumers?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

Post WWII the responsibility for investing in research split between agencies focused on weapons development and space exploration (being completely customer-driven) and other agencies charted to fund basic and applied research in science and medicine (being driven by peer-review.). Department of Research and Development.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. The most sought-after hires are computer programmers and interactive media developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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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. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document.

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