ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. The Proof Is In The Revenue. Report: Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: Be Proactive or Become Social Media Help Desk View more documents from Jeremiah Owyang.

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Social Media Media Programming Viral 134

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

Forecast revenue growth that defies business principles. Entrepreneurs who under-estimate cash requirements or focus on product development while someone else pays the bills are doomed to fail over and over again. Personal relationships and emotions have broken many businesses -- so be careful.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Forecast Angel Investor 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Even as their teams grow, entrepreneurs often feel that they must tend to every aspect of the business, including low-level tasks that distract from revenue-generating activity. The result? Accountant.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Management Arizona Software Review 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

There are a whole range of valid reasons why non-developers would want to dictate the production release schedule (Seasonal/timing issues, marketing, fulfillment concerns, documentation/training, revenue controls, legal/regulatory. Besides training, how does documentation/Help keep up?

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

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. When we’re optimizing, product development teams encounter similar situations. I mean, here we are, paying them to be there, and they won’t use the product!

San Francisco 154

San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Longer, costlier cycles drain cash on hand while delaying the onset of crucial revenue streams. Full treatment of product components and functions. Adequate documentation for Customs clearance.

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Cost Developer Small Business Administration Marketing 100

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With all the technology available for messaging, documenting, verifying, processing, storing, and sharing data, business owners are finding out that there is no need to ever print a hard copy of anything ever again. Social Media Marketing & Promotion.

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Cloud eCommerce Security Advertising 113

Up and Running

MAY 2, 2011

It’s one of the most important documents you’ll ever create. How revenues are generated. Explain exactly how customers are served, how the product or service is delivered, and how money is collected. so you can demonstrate activity toward continual revenue creation and growth.

Business Plan 92

Business Plan SBA Revenue Finance 92

ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

In this article, we’ll explain how to build a resilient product launch strategy that survives a non-linear journey. We’ll also share when to transition to the growth stage in the product lifecycle so you can drive conversions and revenue off your momentum. Maturity: The height of your product’s adoption and profitability.

Product 96

Product Social Media Audience Software Review 96

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. For the first few years, your VCs want you to keep your head down, build the product, find product/market fit and ship to get to some inflection point (revenue, users, etc.). If so, how is the revenue measured? ——-.

Liquidity Event 120

Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Private Equity 120

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. They want newer things.

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Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 332

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

To increase the number of iterations you have left, you can either increase cash on hand (by raising money or increasing revenues), reduce burn rate, or increase the speed of each iteration. In fact, every single lean transformation documented in books like Lean Thinking took place in the midst of serious external threats.

San Francisco 117

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 117

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Funding process.

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. The point tracking and documentation system would be managed manually by my team on the back end. Almost on a weekly basis, I meet new aspiring entrepreneurs looking to execute on their ideas.

Technical Review 96

Technical Review Distribution Redemption Demand 96

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. In this section, you really just want to document how your business will make money.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Billing and revenue collection. Funding process.

Startup 255

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Regardless, this document is a viable alternative to creating decks at the seed stage, and we wanted to deconstruct what that might look like below. The goal isn’t to suddenly self-sustain and generate tens of millions in revenue immediately following a seed investment (though nobody would argue if that happened).

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Seed Stage Cap Table Metrics Burn Rate 331

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Funding process.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Billing and revenue collection. Funding process.

Startup 239

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

To illustrate, let’s investigate two typical company scenarios: Company Scenario #1: A company lacking great financial traction - slow revenue growth, little profit - but one that competes in an industry attractive to strategic and financial buyers. Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description.

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Harvest IP Software Review Forecast 48

Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

More importantly, we’d witnessed Customer Development’s massive success at another local startup. We bought Steve’s book , started product development and began reaching out to customers ins search of our first earlyvangelists. Focus on revenue from day one. Temptation to focus on growth and worry about revenue later.

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Customer Development Developer Customer California 231

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth. In business, one important measure is the value of the company.

Intellectual Property 223

Intellectual Property .Net Valuation Distribution 223

Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application.

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Founder Startup Software Review Software 78

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

I remember enjoying reading his book “ Delivering Happiness ,” the story behind how he led Zappos and drove it to a billion dollars in revenue before Amazon bought it. To make it official, we used a Y Combinator post-SAFE document with a pro-rata side letter to document it and put it into the company’s minute book.

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Delaware SEC New York City New York 62

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Adhering to standard rules and processes, no matter how formally they are documented, can keep the machinery humming. He retrieved all documents by searching his email to find the one to which they were last attached, or, more often, he called me to re-send something and therefore move it up in his email stack. Not really.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2020

Advanced project management software like Nifty , developed an all-in-one overview on Project, Milestones, and Team workflow progress. It will increase productivity, transparency, document sharing, and team collaboration in general. The bottom line is that stakeholders are interested only in how to increase revenue.

Startup 147

Startup Demand Software Acquisition 147

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 7, 2012

make a list of all the features customers want before they buy your product. hand Product Development a features list of the sum of all customer requests. hand Product Development a detailed marketing-requirements document. What you are going to do is develop your product for the few, not the many.

Startup 116

Startup Matching Product Development Acquisition 116

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2015

Initially created as a way to link customer needs to performance measures in Japanese product development, VOC has jumped into the mainstream of market research. Drive more leads, sales, and revenue. Then, grab the top 3 or 4 messages from each and either drop them into a new document or grab this Google doc I created.

Conversion 48

Conversion Customer Software Review Audience 48

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Silicon Valley 20

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Silicon Valley 20

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The company, known for viral social content, is predicted to bring in $100 million in revenue in 2014 from native advertising on 150 million unique visitors a month, according to a 2013 Forbes article. The document classified six types of native ads and recommends guidance for clear transparency is needed for consumers’ trust.

Advertising 139

Advertising San Francisco New York Viral 139

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

Here’s how: Develop the Product for the Few, Not the Many. We now know this results in wasted engineering effort, time and cash, as customers don’t use, want or need most of the features developed without their input. The risk here is lost time and no product for customers to provide feedback against.

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Customer Advisory Board Cofounder Engineer 119

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This applies whether the focus is on product development, strategy, hiring, or positioning in the market. It doesn’t have to be 80 pages long, nor does it have to include 10 years of projected revenues and earnings; many great companies articulate their strategic approach in a one-page document or a 5-slide presentation.

Small Business 95

Small Business Startup Leadership Vertical 95

37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I agree – this reminds me of a friend who was involved in three different IT start-ups, none of which ever turned a dime of revenue. “if the name of your product is the most important thing you’re discussing, you’re either deluded or have a pointless product.” 27 Apr 10. Sören Meyer-Eppler. 27 Apr 10. .

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Product Name Naming Product Software Review 44

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Developing a long-range business plan is really just an extension of your regular business planning process. A typical business plan covers the next one to three years, documenting your target market, marketing strategy, and product or service offerings for that time period. Will you introduce new products and services?

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Business Plan Lean Forecast Exit Strategy 83