Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

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. Build for sustainability and resilience, as well as growth.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department. America’s adversaries understand this.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Perhaps you’re an aspiring technology entrepreneur with a great idea of a product you believe would take off, but due to the lack of technical knowledge or funds have no way to turn your business idea into reality. With funds you could maybe even consider outsourcing the development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

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. Build for sustainability and resilience, as well as growth.

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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. pound paperweight,” said the New York Times’ David Pogue in a technology review.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. They taped people using existing products. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2013

Technological Costs. Almost all new business owners will have to make an initial investment in the technological aspect of production and everyday business activities. Technological costs include computers and the software necessary to do business. Product Development and Marketing. Be Realistic about It.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video.

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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. Tech teams are comprised of three distinct managements skills: people, process & technology. Engineering is critical but it is not everything. Your first sales people should be consultative sellers who can fuel evangelical sales.

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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. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. Neither is the norm.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

Adam Root has worked in development and design for Fortune 500 companies, midsize agencies, and startups. He’s the founder and CTO of Hiplogiq , makers of marketing technologies SocialCompass and SocialCentiv. Professionalisms Adam Root Hiplogiq product development startup'

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. I’ve been asked to talk today about the future of Innovation – typically that involves giving you a list of hot technologies to pay attention to – technologies like machine learning. In fact, it’s not about any specific new technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Nanea Reeves has a storied career in senior leadership roles at technology companies. Nanea help leadership roles at EA (SVP, COO Global Online), Gaikai (Chief Product Officer, Chief Strategy Officer), JAMDAT (SVP), Machinma (COO) and currently textPlus (President & COO – including leading engineering and product).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

I’m convinced that you can learn more from failure than success, so it pays to take these as lessons to improve your success odds before you start: Creating a new technology doesn’t make a business. If you don’t have all these interests and skills, even your most “disruptive” products will likely fail.

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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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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

Post WWII the responsibility for investing in research split between agencies focused on weapons development and space exploration (being completely customer-driven) and other agencies charted to fund basic and applied research in science and medicine (being driven by peer-review.). The irony is that while the U.S. In lieu of the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore. The book popularized the technology adoption lifecycle curve that originally came out of Iowa State University shown below.

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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. Leverage information technology. Don’t try this without a formal process.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist. It encourages a startup to invest in customer discovery and validation in parallel with product development prior to product launch.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In order to truly find success this must be matched by a development team that consistently strives to deliver truly life-bettering products and services that customers keep coming back for. Implementing technological upgrades that get your thoughtfully designed products to market is a must in today’s competitive corporate world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

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 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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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2024

Following the AI boom in 2023, the spotlight has been even more on this technology, ensuring that this would be the year when companies went all-in on AI. 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.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

According to 2023 statistics , the top businesses in the electronic industry are Apple, Cannon, and Dell, and surprisingly all three of them have worked tirelessly on the integration of technologies in strategic decision-making at every step of their operations.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Inconsistent startup outsource 4-5 times as much of their product development than consistent startups. In discovery phase 60% of inconsistent startups focus on validating a product and 80% of consistent startups focus on discovering a problem space. Inconsistent startups write 3.4 times more code in efficiency stage.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. Information and communications technology include 4,600 companies and 45,000 employees. Newfoundland and Labrador Advanced Technology Industry.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Technology, marketing, legal, distribution are all changing and evolving at an incredible pace. The technology you choose for your product will change your Go To Market strategy. Your distribution method will modify your product, etc.,

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. Levine was an early proponent of agile and is a veteran of systems change and technology management. I’ve spent my career doing large-scale high impact technology management for major US institutions. What’s your main focus?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Interestingly, most organizations are using advanced technologies that offer data-driven insights for many of their day-to-day operational needs, yet aren’t leveraging the same advances applied to business processes. Contact centers are closely tied with marketing, sales, shipping and even product development. 4 Redundancy.

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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 13, 2017

Consider the marketing and product development required to walk through each step. Invest in New Technology. Marketing and product development may be two prime areas where you want to concentrate a bulk of your funds on to foster growth, but you should not overlook the important aspect of technology.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s ). Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. Could create and introduce new and disruptive products and/or services for new markets.

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