Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. There is a high probability that the person you’re hiring will leave you within 18 months. I learned how to better run a product management process. I never built Google.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs. This includes the design, development, launch, and enhancement of the SaaS application. .

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2024

One increasingly popular strategy is to hire a fractional chief marketing officer (CMO). Early-stage startups often operate with tight budgets, making it impractical to hire a full-time CMO. Hiring a full-time CMO, according to Salary , can cost your startup around $360,672 a year.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 17, 2010

If this is your attitude, your conception of tech support is completely backwards and you're missing out on important channels for marketing, product development, and sales. Yes, I'm flagrantly paraphrasing the legendary Kathy Sierra , but the idea applies as much to tech support as to product development.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Hire A Team Of Software Developers. Once you understand the industry viability for your software startup, you can now hire a team of developers. Throughout recruitment, look to hire knowledgeable software developers with adequate experience and technical skills. Install Productive Development Tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2013

Website hosting, internet access and other IT products will be a part of the technological costs of starting a new business. Product Development and Marketing. A big part of your startup budget will have to be dedicated to product development and marketing. Start with a small number of employees.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a new entrepreneur or business owner, the most important thing you will do is hire talent. Hiring = Sales. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. What does the right hire look like?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. If you’re a first-time entrepreneur, I’m willing to bet you work longer hours than necessary trying to manage easily outsourced tasks. You’ll find your to-do list growing shorter and more manageable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all. Thank you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have no idea how dramatically your own role has to evolve as you develop a solution, start a business, and expect it to scale into a successful self-managed company. Thus my job as a small business advisor really is really more about getting you developed than perfecting the business.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2021

And hiring an intellectual property attorney may seem like a budget dealbreaker. Applying for a trademark — Do it yourself or hire an attorney? If you decide to tackle the process on your own, there are several online resources for managing the whole process. Hiring an attorney. The do-it-yourself approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

They realized that they were selling a bunch of cool products but none that had enough economic value. They had wasted a lot of money because they had raised a lot of money and therefore hired a large staff. We couldn’t cut product development (we had 23 people!) I went through more examples.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker hired to complete tasks you should not be doing as the founder of a startup. There are two key points during the life of your startup where your life will be much easier if you use a virtual assistant (VA): While proving out your product/market. After your product launch. and Canada.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Product development process. Manage human resources. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

’’ Diversity hiring is not about ticking boxes in checklists or having all groups represented whatever the definition might be across different geographies around the world. So, who benefits the most from work from home jobs and diversity hiring programs? Work from home jobs & Hiring Neurodiverse People.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

Different ways of working are better suited to different industries and business sizes, so it’s crucial to consider these sorts of things before you begin hiring or go to market. One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? My explicit goal in working with HBR is to foster a dialog between entrepreneurs and more traditional general managers. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Without further ado.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Funding – Knowing the right people (and how to pitch them) so your business gains additional capital for the things that matter like product development, hiring, service, and expansion. Here are but a few you and the business could stumble upon: 1.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Who should you hire? Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. How are you ever going to get it done? Ready to start simplifying?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Now that all of this is set, who is going to manage the scrum team? But since there are no turning back scenes with waterfall, it is fair to always stick on to scrum, which is a kind of agile project management methodology. Easy to manage with delays since the leftovers of your previous sprint could be added to the upcoming one.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Think about it: Companies hire people who come from outside the buyer’s world and don’t share his interests — employees, agencies, consultants, and the like — and expect them to persuade buyers to hand over their money. Build strong customer communities. Consider Harley-Davidson’s success in creating a sense of community around its bikes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. Being a manager didnt sound fun - deep down, who really wants to be held accountable for other peoples actions? So I wound up learning the discipline of managing other people.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. Werdelin equates building a successful product to building a nightclub. 1) Twitter. 8) Angry Birds. million plus overhead.

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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. Hiring a Development Agency.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. We now have specific management tools to grow startups.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. Don’t hire people with skills and qualifications similar to yours. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Hiring the right people at the right time is key. Series A to Series B.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

After all, if you already have an all-male startup, you’re already at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring the very women that could fix that imbalance. And yet, when I suggest this practice to hiring managers and recruiters alike, they rarely do it. Beyond hiring, our actual work process matters, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

We have to manage to learn something from our first product iteration. Without further ado, the video: Slides are below: Minimum Viable Product View more presentations from Eric Ries. Labels: minimum viable product , slides , video 13comments: Alan Pinstein said. Robert August 25, 2009 5:25 AM Bernard said.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

Entrepreneurs face overwhelming challenges, from market competition to financial management. Cash Flow Management: Monitor your cash flow to ensure you have enough liquidity to meet operational needs. Tips for Better Financial Management Regular Audits: Conduct quarterly audits to ensure financial accuracy and compliance.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2017

Consider the marketing and product development required to walk through each step. Hiring a professional marketing team may be worth the expense in some cases. By planning your finances and managing your budget accordingly, you may be able to carefully monitor and control spending to gain access to the necessary funds.

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