Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2017

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Nurturing marketers reserve a minimum of 10 percent of their marketing budgets for testing and learning. Innovate; don’t perfect.

Marketing 59

Marketing Technical Review Social Media Activision 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2014

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Nurturing marketers reserve a minimum of 10 percent of their marketing budgets for testing and learning. Innovate; don’t perfect.

Marketing 95

Marketing Technical Review Social Media Startup 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2012

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Nurturing marketers reserve a minimum of 10 percent of their marketing budgets for testing and learning. Innovate; don’t perfect.

Customer 95

Customer Custom Marketing Technical Review 95

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. It’s how we move products. I installed Windows 3.1

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Here’s a hack for you. Good people and evil people.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. call to arms.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. I guess that gives me over 10 years experience in starting companies. Ten years ago, I made more mistakes, but I moved a lot faster. Seriously. (I

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. ” But focusing on too many is a mistake. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. billion on Friday, I have received a flood of emails asking for my thoughts on the topic. Build a SWAT team 3.

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. At Starting Point, 100% of the interaction with our users/customers was via email. We had one (yes, only one) person answer thousands of emails a day.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. First-time Sequoia CEO Insecurity 10. technology as the foundation of their voice-recognition personal assistant product. Build a SWAT team 3.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Leaving 10. We had lawyers everywhere; digging through files, reviewing all of our emails and mounds of paperwork. Build a SWAT team 3. Bootstrap 2.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

For years I’ve been offering advice on how to better communicate and for years I’ve seen most people commit the same universal mistake: Including too many details. You’ve been given 10 minutes to stand on stage and tell what your company does and why it matters. Give them the iPod not Microsoft Office products.

Slides 346

Slides Software Review Blogging Venture Capital 346

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

They keep me at the leading edge of new development as it is productized, even before mass production. The costs in playing such a dual role are many times that of those in positioning a new product in a niche already opened by another. And statistically, the first product into a niche is very rarely the one to succeed.

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 120