Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. In government agencies process versus product has gone further.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. Marketing should start before product development. No startup can afford to do these serially. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. These days you can create a C-corporation online quickly at a low cost, which will serve you well, without waiting for an outside attorney. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

There''s always going to be something newer, something faster, something bigger; and the perfect product is a never ending chase — but only if you allow it to be. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use. Engineering is critical but it is not everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2019

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2020

sales to product development), the problems will continue to exist. A dissatisfied customer is generally the result of a communication breakdown. If a company doesn’t have the right mechanisms in place to relay issues between departments (i.e.:

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

When you are creating new products in your business , you’ll always need to make sure that you are getting the process right if you are keen on trying to make a success of this. The truth is that there is so much to think about when it comes to product development that you need to be aware of, so it can take a while.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I also think a lot of people underestimate the tax that having a hacked-together solution levies on your product development, even in the short term. For example, not having good system monitoring doesn’t just make developers’ jobs hard when they try to figure out why the servers are down at 3 a.m.,

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Timing is crucial in product development. A pivotal stage in this progression involves crafting prototypes to authenticate and enhance designs before proceeding with production. This also speeds up new product development , saving companies time, resources, and money. What is Rapid Prototype Injection Molding?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

I like it in many cases, since it is action-oriented, helps streamline and decrease product development time and costs, and focuses the product and the firm on customer needs rather than technology. Of course, if you fire without aiming, there’s always a greater chance that you will shoot yourself in the foot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. Marketing should start before product development. No startup can afford to do these serially. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible.

Intellectual Property 312

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Install Productive Development Tools. Next, you can integrate a reliable set of development tools to amplify your workforce’s capabilities. There are plenty of effective programming tools that support your developers. Of course, this can build your capacity for new work, which will certainly grow your revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Feedback driven product development versus visionary (Steve Jobs) driven development. In this clip we discuss why Nanea is a proponent of a lean startup and data driven development methodology. She combines gathering: Quantitative data – data hook implementation, click tracking, A/B testing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints. At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies. Startups can do anything.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Making use of tech’s best product development, content creators, and security firms to combat data breaches is the best way to move forward in your industry. The post Digital Services Your Business Needs To Consider appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2017

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For example, Artem is an expert in software engineering, product development and all things tech. It’s important for co-founders to each have their own personal strengths in a business so they can divide the responsibilities and succeed in their respective roles. Meanwhile, my talents lie within business management and networking.

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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. These days you can create a C-corporation online quickly at a low cost, which will serve you well, without waiting for an outside attorney. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

Intellectual Property 261

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2024

Rising costs threaten AI projects From intelligent product development to data-driven decision-making, it’s no wonder entrepreneurs have turned to AI to drive business growth. Yet, the new report from SQream reveals that, in reality, these gains are proving extremely costly to achieve.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tasks such as compliance with accounting, tax-related duties, payroll management, and product development rules can gallop the bulk of your time and leave little for ESG sustainability reporting. To simplify your work, you should pick and use an appropriate sustainability reporting software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

You need skills in finance, operations, and marketing to supplement product development, and more hours of work than one person can manage. Plan to and assemble the right team, including co-founders. Building and running a business is not a solo operation.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The promotion signals the importance of product development for the company’s growth roadmap. In addition to Rosenberg’s hire and Goori’s role change, DataRails has announced an internal promotion for Sergey Spivakov, who moves from director of R&D to VP of R&D. CEO Perspective.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2019

I like it in many cases, since it is action-oriented, helps streamline and decrease product development time and costs, and focuses the product and the firm on customer needs rather than technology. Of course, if you fire without aiming, there’s always a greater chance that you will shoot yourself in the foot.

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Technical Review Startup Cost Product Development 233

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Moreover, quickly resolving issues or integrating customer suggestions into product development can create a partnership feeling with customers. Offering proactive support, such as checking in after purchase, can show customers their experience truly matters.

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