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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” Wireframes? Free trials?

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Are you ready to scrap the system and restart?  

Berkonomics

Make sure you include someone at least reasonably aware of AI or robotics developments and resources. And meeting the challenge of improving productivity is a great morale lift for all, as well as good business practice for the company and management.

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Keep A Real Job Until Your New Venture Shows Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

It pays to be able to fall back into a familiar mental role to recover, when the pressures of fund raising, new product development, and satisfying initial customers wears you down. In my view, entrepreneurship is an endurance sport that you have to train for, rather than a quick dash to success.

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The Berkus Method: Valuing an Early-Stage Investment

Berkonomics

An example would be a drug development company needing various stages of FDA approval, substituted for “prototype” above. million), but certainly also allowing the investor to put much lower values into each test, resulting in valuations well below that amount. There is nothing wrong with changing the five tests to meet individual needs.

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Are YOU the bottleneck in your business?

Berkonomics

I have used that book’s lessons to teach process improvement to many types of businesses, including software development, supply chain management and retail fulfillment. In a manufacturing or production environment, that means people are stuck at their positions with completed work waiting for the process to move on.

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Know your four “P’s” to build business in a new year!    

Berkonomics

The wrong person in most any job causes everyone below or above that person in the production system that depend upon that person to operate at a reduced rate or quality of output. Email readers, continue here…] The second P is for productivity. How do you efficiently get your offering from development to market?

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DermTech Raises $10M In Series C Funding

socalTECH

The startup, which is developing precision medicine technology for the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers, inflammatory diseases, and other skin diseases, said the funding included investments by RTW Investments, along with other private investors.

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