Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

I went to several tradeshows to validate my data and networked with small business decision makers. Ultimately, the final project only took shape because I confirmed the demand for a standalone product through consistent, thorough research. Go to tradeshows and network with customers. Create ads. Send surveys.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Back then he advocated for.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. One is known as ‘Mr.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. They have a good story to tell about how your product or service helped them succeed. Highly trained salespeople.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For example, Artem is an expert in software engineering, product development and all things tech. Meanwhile, my talents lie within business management and networking. In practice, we balance each other out, consult on all the big decisions and trust each other’s judgment on these respective roles 110 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. One last thought.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

We couldn’t cut product development (we had 23 people!) because we had made product commitments to a large customer who was about to agree to a nationwide rollout. We couldn’t cut marketing because they were instrumental to the sale. “OK, then let’s renegotiate with our customer!

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

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. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. In what order? Silicon Valley, Boston).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Don’t use Network/Advisors – 8%. Steve’s insight into the product development process has generated millions of dollars in revenue for start-ups and small businesses. Ran out of Cash – 29%. Not the Right Team – 23%.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

Tools such as LinkedIn are obviously useful, but it can also pay dividends to use your network to find potential hires. It doesn’t take long to ask your employees and network, so do it. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Many of the best hires are not actively looking for roles.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. then five years in Product Mgt. Good luck, engineering manager.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period. But if you were to replicate the product exactly, all those decisions are made for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. But there is more to it than that. Startups are businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. This has led to exponential growth.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Studying an online business analytics masters is one way you can up your numbers game; whether this is the finance, marketing, or product development aspects of your company, the course can supply you with the tools, means, and knowledge to streamline your company operations.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Some companies, on the other hand, address very specific types of audiences: the key, here, is to remember that an understanding of the core customer is just as important as product development / technical expertise as an asset to the company. This is dangerous, the author argues, to the development of an adaptable, thoughtful culture.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

To market to Muslims, companies could take note of the holy month of the Ramadan, offer halal products, develop shariah-compliant Islamic financial services, or create mobile apps. A key point to note here is that developing halal products doesn’t limit a company from cross-selling to non-Muslims.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Graphic designers and illustrators are no longer considered a starving artist and computer network technicians are keeping the tech companies running. Hibernia Atlantics network of subsea cables provides some of the worlds best internet connections. This is a combination of applied research and new product development.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Users can access web and video conferencing, secure data networks, call forwarding, voicemail, and caller ID all in a bundled package that comes in under operating budget. Just a decade ago, companies paid network and Internet security firms thousands of dollars to provide protection across all private and public networks.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

COMMUNICATIONS GIANT ARRIS GROUP BUYS ISRAEL’S BIGBAND NETWORKS FOR $158 MLN. is acquiring digital-video networking company BigBand Networks Inc. The BIRD Foundation promotes collaboration between Israeli and American companies in various technological fields for the purpose of joint product development.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

What could make more sense than to leverage the enthusiasm of happy customers to convince buyers that they need your products and services? And in an increasingly social and networked world — not to mention an economy where every dollar of revenue is critical — this type of third party validation is more important than ever.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Some companies, on the other hand, address very specific types of audiences: the key, here, is to remember that an understanding of the core customer is just as important as product development / technical expertise as an asset to the company. This is dangerous, the author argues, to the development of an adaptable, thoughtful culture.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

It can be a 3 level fall back process for getting the location of the customer, as illustrated: GPS → Network location → Last known location of the user. Click Labs excels in product development outsourcing in general and building On Demand platforms in particular. The economics of scheduling can be much more viable viz.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch, Third Edition by Robert G. First published more than ten years ago, this book is regarded as a must-read for anyone in product development. Networking and Communication. The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun. The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. They have programmed a neural network to create an aesthetics detection algorithm that can see the beauty in photos the same way humans do.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Product development. Product development allows you to expand your existing market share by developing a new product for that audience. New channels.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Mighty Networks. In today’s social media-driven world, you need tools that can take your products to the right groups and communities. In today’s social media-driven world, you need tools that can take your products to the right groups and communities. This can include code components, product specs, marketing plans, etc.

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