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

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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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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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A few of the many quotations that struck me: “Most startups fail due not to the failure of product development but due to the lack of customers”. Learning and discovering who a company’s initial customers will be and what market they are in, requires a process separate and distinct from product development”.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2013

I like it in most 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

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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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced. Other advantages of production-ready SOMs include more CPU choices and a smaller footprint.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2012

But to lose the sale to another startup with an inferior product would have been psychologically devastating to our little startup. E.piphany’s product development team had spent weeks inside the account, and they believed the deal was all but won. It was one thing for a startup to lose to a large company like Oracle or IBM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

These days, almost every new product is not deemed scalable until it has been certified as meeting a multitude of quality and agency standards, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and Underwriters Lab (UL). Expanding the product line. Specialized VCs start to jump in at this stage.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Contact centers are closely tied with marketing, sales, shipping and even product development. Here are a few that plague companies across nearly every industry: #1 Siloed Departments. Departmental lines are increasingly blurred.

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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. Lessons Learned.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

Complicating the development of a useful product is the stringent safety and compliance approval testing that varies based on country and industry. Businesses have a lot to think about when they have a new product idea and one missed step in the product development lifecycle can significantly impact business success.

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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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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

Similarly, new product development with advanced features and specs is based largely on new research, making the old surveys redundant and useless. That is why consumer surveys, interviews, discussions, and opinions matter the most, and so R&D costs are sky-high when talking about this industry.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

Not sales, product development, or fundraising. It doesn’t take long to ask your employees and network, so do it. You need to truly embody what I call the ‘hiring mindset’. You need to believe that hiring is the most important thing. Hiring is the one thing that will have the biggest impact on your business.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. . My favorite part is how many different hats I wear. I’ve learned and grown more as a leader than I ever could have imagined.

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