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6 Keys To Aiming Your Product To Mainstream Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality. At some point, this becomes compulsive engineering, and the tradeoffs in time to market, cost, and user friendliness move the product out of the intended market.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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Ways To Make Your Startup Stand Out From The Rest

YoungUpstarts

Here’s how you can make your startup stand out from the rest of the crowd. OPEN platform provides software developers with the perfect platform for distributing, and monetizing, their products on the blockchain. When starting a new business, one thing quickly becomes clear – everyone else is doing it too!

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How to Model Your Marketing Against the Product Lifecycle

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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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The 5 Components Of Resting Hard

YoungUpstarts

I encourage you to make your 2020 mantra, “Work hard, play hard — REST hard.”. People often think taking time to rest and relax equals unproductivity, when in fact the opposite is true. In order to be successful high-performers and get the best results, we need a balance of work, play, and rest. Comprehension. Self-Awareness.

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10 Strategies To Cover New Product Development Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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How To Make Your Home Office 5 Times More Productive

YoungUpstarts

In this blog post, we’ll tell you how to make your home office five times more productive with five must follow tips for remote work. The key word in the last sentence being “ office”, we’ll focus on showing you how to create a productive workspace at home. In reality, this habit isn’t good for you or your work.

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