David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2020

If you’re looking to develop some software, you may not know how to create a software project that will be successful. Maybe it all comes down to hiring the best developers? Read on, and you’ll learn the basics of developing a successful software project. Finding Developers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. MVP, despite the name, is not about creating minimal products. There is a distinction between product and offering.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. Also, this goes equally for business development. So I hope these posts will be useful to all and not just those who need road warriors.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Think of your domain name and get hosting. Have you already thought about your brand’s name? 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). We were family.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. What is customer development? What a great post.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The goal is to have split-testing be a continuous part of our development process, so much so that it is considered a completely routine part of developing a new feature. I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process.

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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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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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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Our research has shown the answer is simple: successful startups are willing to do what the unsuccessful ones are not – namely, follow the four golden rules. The reasons for startup failures are well documented in numerous sources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process.

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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. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. Developing a popular mobile scheduling app, they raised $1.2

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. Eric Names matter. There is a dark side to naming.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

It allows teams to diagnose sources of waste in their development process and continuously improve, reversing the usual trend of teams getting slower over time. These problems can be anything: development mistakes, site outages, marketing program failures, or even internal missed schedules. There’s no easy fix to this problem.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

The journey to success often requires consistent self-development, an area that an advanced qualification can help you thrive. Business degrees, particularly higher-level ones, will usually cover communication in the workplace, which is crucial to developing employee satisfaction and, perhaps, customer satisfaction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Therefore, the profile of the initial team to staff an Innovation Outpost should be a technology-savvy business development group. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. What solution are we productizing ?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. But your silo—whether product design or marketing or web development—isn’t the only one that needs or benefits from a user research culture. Only a company-wide user research culture enables iterative testing throughout the product design process. It costs money. It has no clear ROI.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. The industry needs a new clock, not just another tick or tock.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But wanting to materialize a product or service and sustaining its operations are two different things. Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This elusive ideal, something that resides in the eyes of the beholder, the ghost of aesthetic perception – the physical and mental feeling that grips and does not let go, Beauty goes by many names. Click Labs excels in product development outsourcing in general and building On Demand platforms in particular.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Ansoff Matrix , named for its strategist creator Igor Ansoff, can be a helpful tool as you evaluate growth opportunities. It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Market development. Product development.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

We’ll cover why a unique selling proposition is important, how to uncover what your customers are hungry for and share a framework for developing and testing a proposition that makes an impact on your business. They developed features with their specific audience in mind. It could help us shape the future of [COMPANY/PRODUCT NAME].

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. I’m sure other disciplines have their own names for it; even protozoans exhibit this behavior (its called taxis ). I understand and respect why optimizers want to do tests like that.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

However, when it comes to MLM product development, marketing ideas and compensation plan strategy, being a creative copycat could be a legal and ethical shortcut to achieving your business goals for your new MLM, party plan or direct selling company. The real definition of copycat marketing is in the name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customer development to online marketing. There is much work that I need to do (the only developer so far) before we have something customers can use.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. And what about picking a name that’s available as a domain? Or company names – why is it 37signals? ;-). Apr 27 2010.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This post describes such a model.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

But, you need to build that first product right. On the other side of the equation, there are a growing number of design, development, and digital media shops who are hungry to expand, or swap focus, to building a company that’s more than just a service shop. Previously published in Entrepreneur.com. Photo credit.

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