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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

This is especially true for startups, which operate on the basis of customer traction to solidify expectations with investors or lending institutions. Conduct a post-action review. Assess both the short- and long-term financial impact. sales to product development), the problems will continue to exist.

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Facebook and product development

BeyondVC

Deitch said Facebook’s feedback from users comes in the form of emails to its customer-service email address, which the company’s product-development team reviews weekly. The post Facebook and product development first appeared on BeyondVC.

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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. You need to build trust between these teams. This makes people more aware of what their team members are up to and creates more harmony.

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Understanding the Regulatory Process throughout your next Hardware Product Design

The Startup Magazine

Complicating the development of a useful product is the stringent safety and compliance approval testing that varies based on country and industry. Businesses have a lot to think about when they have a new product idea and one missed step in the product development lifecycle can significantly impact business success.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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