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. It's just a thin strip no wider than a scrollbar; in fact some products put the boogers on top of the scrollbar. Tags: Essays design fun metrics persona philosophy productivity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does. First, he writes it nice and clear.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. I drew inspiration from how Toyota designed a new car. I was the only person from software or finance.

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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. One of the simplest ways to construct a product like Etsy is to use WordPress Etsy themes. Hourly rate.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. 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.

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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. This is the speed-up-or-slow-down moment.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

We talked about some simple design rules and I remember him thanking me for coming, saying we were the only chip company who cared enough to call on him (little did he know.) Long gone from Zilog I saw the picture of the original Macintosh design team. Its Woz-inspired creativity set the tone for the rest of the project.&#

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

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. We always strive to be a cut above the rest in our industry and want to consistently uphold and earn our name. All boxes checked the rest is history.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Thats what business is designed to do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. my startup is Blank Label (www.blank-label.com), which is a provider of custom dress shirts that empowers consumers to become the designer of their own product. hey eric, love the blog.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. Cooper framed personas as a way of avoiding designing for an “elastic” user, and thus cementing some sort of common properties across segments to aid cohesive design strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest.

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SVPG

MARCH 5, 2011

By whatever title, I am referring here to your most senior product role in your company or business unit. Organizationally, this role typically manages the product owners/product managers and the user experience designers, and generally reports to the CEO. They respect and value their designers and engineers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

One such technique is called Five Whys, which has its origins in the Toyota Production System, and posits that behind every supposedly technical problem is actually a human problem. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. Applied to a start-up, heres how it works.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. Cooper framed personas as a way of avoiding designing for an “elastic” user, and thus cementing some sort of common properties across segments to aid cohesive design strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Read the rest of The New Startup Arms Race at Huffington Post. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. As you face new challenges, successes and failures - please share what you learn with the rest of us. My realization for 2010 is that Im already in the game. Lets get 2010 underway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For technical designers building innovative features, how to use them is obvious, and it’s very hard to see things as a first-time not-so-technical customer. The solution is to actively engage people outside your perspective to design usability in from the beginning. All customer interfaces must be designed by Marketing.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2019

Product Hunt is a community-based website that allows makers and marketers to launch their products or services and get in touch with their first real users. The community can jump start products through votes and (honest) reviews, which are essential in the early stages of campaigns. Your product is not going to be perfect.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. For the rest of the partnership, their focus would be to quickly form an opinion about the team and probing on the areas of their hesitation.”

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It’s all about the product. The only thing that matters is how good your product is. All the rest is noise. At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. Always has been. Always will be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. So you can imagine how I expected some skepticism when pitching ideas about technology innovation to, say, the U.S. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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. If not, brand equity is your strongest asset.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. Read the rest here. Read the rest here. For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 25, 2010

I felt a bit stagnant with what I was doing, so I decided that it was time to release a new product. This decision was made after listening to a podcast about product development and realizing that I really didn’t have a product. Would I be wasting my time developing a product that no one would use?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Users were not just an extension of the testing team - they were an extension of the product design team. In contrast, at most organizations - especially those with mature products - high quality is the starting point. Understanding these three factors makes it clear as to why continuous deployment was a starting point for IMVU.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model - first by finding product/market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition/activation, partners, costs, etc.). They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

They live their purposes inside out, and everything else falls into place, always returning to the purpose that made them visionaries to guide the brand and its product development when things get difficult, markets change, or downfalls occur. Cut Your Workweek to a 50-Hour Max to Activate Remote Modes of Thought.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. For established media empires, this is a scary fact. Is that a lot?

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. What happened to the rest? It’s hard to imagine product functionality. Almost on a weekly basis, I meet new aspiring entrepreneurs looking to execute on their ideas. Guess what? Only three of them ended up buying the premium version.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. And the rest of the advice on this blog is irrelevant. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The tension created as they compare, although compounded by satire and the bizarre nature of the fictional characters depicted, does prove one thing – business card design is crucial. However, quality design, materials and printing are what do the work for you – as long as you keep it all simple. – Secondly, there’s the colour.

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