ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The classic lifespan of successful products is a story in four parts: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline. How this story plays out has a lot to do with the type of product and how it’s improved over time, if at all. In this article, we’ll look at the different stages of the product lifecycle through the lens of marketing.

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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

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. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push.

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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. But I know some very good ones built on great follow-up with incremental improvements to existing products. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Finish the product before marketing begins. 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.

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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. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

But not anal if one founder who shares equity graciously with early employees who are treated as “co-founders” My idea startup team is heaving on tech personnel but also has strong product management. Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use. For the wrong reasons.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2020

sales to product development), the problems will continue to exist. In cases where customer feedback is provided to the development team, it is crucial that communication be a two-way street. Clients should be made aware of product improvements or new solutions that are in the works.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2025

The speed that AI enables for product development is certainly significantand it cannot be understated how important this is, whether youre designing the prototype of a new product or the website to sell it on. This makes it a dicey proposition for users to become reliant on the technology when doing research.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

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). Here are some things we discussed: User experience focused product management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

If your product is highly innovative, and speed to market is critical, you won’t get it right the first time anyway, no matter how cautiously you plan. These are the environments where you really need extended planning to ensure proper positioning before launching the product. But Lonnie L.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I discovered my product was a “nice to have,” not a “must have,” and we shut the company down a year a later. However, when I looked into the detail, most of them did not have even early adaptors and the problem wasn’t “chasm crossing,” it was that almost nobody wanted their products. All a startup has are mere hypotheses,” and. “in

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? They rely on each other for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Finish the product before marketing begins. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Great product exposure and a sales team dedicated to improving the lives of your customer base act as the face of your company. 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.

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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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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

An effective product launch strategy helps you generate awareness, build intrigue, and validate your product positioning. The best product launches take into account the product lifecycle—understanding where it fits into the bigger picture, and how to transition through each phase. But it’s not a linear journey.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While these activities shape and build culture, they don’t win wars, and rarely deliver shippable or deployable products. 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.

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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. Market Your Software Product. In fact, many of these modules are available to your team for free.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Others in that cohort included Zviki Shimon (CFO), Yair Areli (senior VP of global sales), Nir Mandel (VP of product management), and Aviv Canaani (VP of marketing). The promotion signals the importance of product development for the company’s growth roadmap. . ” Product Focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Growth like this, this early in a company’s lifecycle rarely happens. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2013

If your product is highly innovative, and speed to market is critical, you won’t get it right the first time anyway, no matter how cautiously you plan. These are the environments where you really need extended planning to ensure proper positioning before launching the product. But Lonnie L.

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2018

If you don’t have all these interests and skills, even your most “disruptive” products will likely fail. Every potentially successful product has competition, or an alternative, or customers with no interest in change. Despite the technology, the fears of pedestrians and government regulations strangled the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. 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

APRIL 26, 2019

If your product is highly innovative, and speed to market is critical, you won’t get it right the first time anyway, no matter how cautiously you plan. These are the environments where you really need extended planning to ensure proper positioning before launching the product. But Lonnie L.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2012

He had just demo’d our product to his friend, the CFO of Autodesk. After seeing the demo, the CFO walked Joe over to the office of Autodesk’s VP of sales, and said to her, “I think this product might solve your sales reporting problem.”. Joe Dinucci, our VP of Sales, was hot on the trail of our next big order.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

Consider a Production-Ready SOM. Also known as a system on module, SOM offers companies a unique strategy when it comes to developing products while keeping customizability fully possible. Other advantages of production-ready SOMs include more CPU choices and a smaller footprint.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. Investors can also be skittish, and winning new customers is not easy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

The main reasons are: Ever-evolving Customer Base: From mobile phones to customised gadgets, from televisions to Desktop Computers, the consumer base is getting more diverse and assorted, with different age groups, genders, ethnicities, and races demanding different products and services.

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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

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you buy into the argument that a strong board can actually help you then this post will lay out how to help you have more productive meetings by preparing properly in advance. This can include: Fund raising, product development choices, sales, marketing effectiveness, competition, business development, M&A … whatever.

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