Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2025

Leverage Technology for Growth Technology is a powerful tool for driving efficiency and innovation. You should also get enterprise resource management software as well. Technology is also going to enable you to have better communication and collaboration. Marketing automation tools may also be valuable to you.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Retention 333

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. In other parts of the world, innovators often need to develop both the ultimate product or service, as well as the enabling infrastructure that underpins it. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The answer is to understand the process and use the right sustainability reporting software. The process starts with a comprehensive review of a company’s processes and operations to identify key opportunities and risks. The Importance of Having the Right Sustainability Reporting Software. How Does Sustainability Reporting Work?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. In other parts of the world, innovators often need to develop both the ultimate product or service, as well as the enabling infrastructure that underpins it. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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Silicon Valley Indonesia Venture Capital Global 312

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Retention 275

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. Most of us have worked in corporate environments where you're never allowed to go back and refactor code.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. They tell you they’re going to ship product and they do. They hire key staff.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

Instead of asking three questions as we did with Bala, we’re going to take a very deep dive into a critical topic: code quality. What follows below are Sin-Mei’s words on how she (and Shippo) define code quality. How do you define code quality? or “What does code quality mean to you?” Functional quality.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Though development was already underway, I kicked-off SyncDev in early November. The core team — a cross-functional team who could make all the business and technical decisions within a set envelop ? consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

Often, a business plan introduces a new technology that requires some explaining. On one hand, as a reader of business plans for investors, I see way too many business plans that ask a reader to wade neck-deep through technology to get to the business. Establish technology as a differentiator, when it is.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

An estimated 75 to 95 percent of new products fail in the marketplace. These cycles are particularly pronounced in the technology industry, where rapid innovation leads to rapid product releases, and often to rapid failures. Turns out people want their laptops to do basic things like run games, Photoshop, or work software.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

Product development involves the creation or modification of a product, satisfying a market niche or newly defined customer. Now more than ever, plastics are very useful in product design because there are a lot of benefits of using plastic. The process can be a critical part of product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale.

Entrepreneur 237

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Retention 237

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. The promotion signals the importance of product development for the company’s growth roadmap. CEO Perspective. DataRails has already raised $53.5

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. He throws off volumes of code, and it works. All is not lost, though.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. Here are best practice tips to consider to ensure your next hardware product doesn’t get delayed or worse lie dormant for years due to regulatory hold-ups.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

In addition, there are many factors that go into the release of a new product that includes fixing bugs, soliciting customer feedback, responding to competition, and adding new features that will maintain a company’s technological lead in the market. The post Facebook and product development first appeared on BeyondVC.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). Although every organization faces some uncertainty in developing new stuff, the conditions are not always extreme. Note that this isn’t a free process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. As a technical fix, it was brilliant. I remember one such meeting vividly. So they react in two ways.

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Technical Review San Francisco Lean Software Review 164

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.

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Technical Review Architecture Software Review Reputation 180

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Fresh data from 15,000+ SAFEs signed last year (source: Carta ) Technology makes it possible to do more with less – LLMs, generative AI have are rapidly changing the game with all kinds of automations, from coding to content creation. We’d like to see that the relevant functions are covered (who’s writing code?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

74% of high growth internet startups fail due to premature scaling. times more lines of code in the discovery phase and 2.25 times more code in efficiency stage. Inconsistent startup outsource 4-5 times as much of their product development than consistent startups. Findings on Premature Scaling.

Silicon Valley 189

Silicon Valley Software Review Startup Cofounder 189

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. Especially for a startup, not taking maximum advantage of free software is crazy.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

From different software systems to overall philosophies, there are many ways that business strategies can inform the way you run your company. Use OKR software to Your Advantage. 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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SCRUM Software Review Technical Review Differentiation 147

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. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. Highly trained salespeople.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Fortunately, technology offers a way to create your own assistant without dipping too far into your operating capital or hiring someone who doesn’t share your penchant for meticulous detail.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Management Arizona Software Review 113

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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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. Being a Better Leader. Working with Social Media.

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Analytics Technical Review Social Media Software Review 179

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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