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How and Where to Write About Technology in Your Business Plan

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I’ll join in the due diligence for my angel group, test for myself, and develop my informed opinion. The detailed look at the technology comes during due diligence, not in the plan or during the pitch. It’s reviewed and revised frequently. It’s reviewed and revised frequently. They’ll thank you.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

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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. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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For the rest of us, we need to get some facts to inform and qualify our hypotheses ("fancy word for guesses") about what kind of product customers will ultimately buy. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. What is customer development? This is a common mistake.

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Google Analytics 102: How To Set Up Goals, Segments & Events in Google Analytics

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Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. The first, Demographics, only works if you’ve enabled Demographic & Interest reporting , and may be limited due to efforts by Google to keep visitor data anonymous. That’s awesome! That means you’re really taking ownership of your data.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

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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. Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

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But such a simple funnel works only if you have a lot of inbound interest and a sales team focused on fielding inquiries. Since we had a sales development team of our own, we needed to factor in their efforts, too. Some might call this a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between your teams. Image source ).

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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