VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The dividend tax for all eligible companies in all areas will be set at 15%. Focused on advanced product development and research, the Israel-based team will play a significant role in the technology and business advancement of the company’s industry-leading formal technologies.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

You’ll occasionally need their signature and will find yourself writing them an eye-wateringly large cheque whenever you pay dividends or sell the company. After the team-poaching mentioned earlier, the goal ended up being to keep product development moving while a new tech team was found. But that’s wrong.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 7, 2019

Just compare the unit sales, price earnings ratios and valuations of firms serving the same set of customers: Automobiles: Tesla makes 245k cars per year, and has a PE ratio of infinity (no dividends yet), and a market cap of $48 billion. Ford makes a 7.9m The market has clearly voted on how it values innovation.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 16, 2021

In doing so, you can repurpose these funds towards your marketing efforts, product development, and other options. You’re unlikely to reach the same heights as Amazon, but it’s proof of how diversifying products can pay huge dividends. Find Increased Funding.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 29, 2013

What is really necessary is to be "walking the talk" of UNDERSTANDING that market and not just listening to but anticipating market and customer needs and then developing, delivering and supporting products that meet those need and enhance that market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

These changes pay increasing dividends, because each improvement now direclty frees up somebody in QA at the same time as reducing the total time of the certification step. Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Interesting post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Luckily, in most prevention situations, even the first few steps in prevention can pay time-savings dividends quickly. Leave your thoughts in a comment. If you’ve tried Five Whys, please share your experiences so far.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 15, 2013

Your product needs champions (beyond your company). Help them get the word out about your product. Develop case studies and get testimonials for your website. This will, in turn, reap dividends with the sales people having more things working for them to help them sell. Happy customers love to share. Make them "stars."

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 15, 2013

Your product needs champions (beyond your company). Help them get the word out about your product. Develop case studies and get testimonials for your website. This will, in turn, reap dividends with the sales people having more things working for them to help them sell. Happy customers love to share. Make them "stars."

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 2, 2017

I have used this technique, successfully, in every single company I have ever started or run and it always paid countless dividends in better understanding both individual employees and the company, as a whole. Explain to them their role in your product development or delivery process and their importance to you and your customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Or it might mean selling a few products on a site like eBay to see how well they perform before ordering in bulk from a wholesaler. What sets this approach apart from practices like using focus groups is that companies base product development decisions not just on what customers say they want but on how they vote with their wallets.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2016

Whether it’s through nationality, religious beliefs, disability, or sexual preference, having a diverse workforce pays dividends for both company morale and employee retention. There’s no better way to reflect the world we live through your company in than by ensuring that you employ a diverse range of staff. Tell us in the comments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Because, unless you are working in an extremely static environment, your product development team is learning and getting better all the time. If thats not a team-wide phenomenon, then its still a form of waste, because everyone has to learn every lesson before it starts paying dividends. Share what you learn. Great post, Eric.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 11, 2017

Far better to do something that has a small cost, but might be hugely beneficial, for example searching for oil wells, building products, developing marketable skills, or building an audience. On any given day you expect not to make any nickels, but when something good happens, you get a lifetime supply.

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