Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. And fifth: Competitive risk. . Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. First-to-market’ is not a sustainable competitive advantage for startups, since sleeping giants do wake up when they see traction, and they can smash newcomers quickly. Marketing should start before product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. And fifth: Competitive risk. . Second: Market risk. .

Outsource Development 120

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. First-to-market’ is not a sustainable competitive advantage for startups, since sleeping giants do wake up when they see traction, and they can smash newcomers quickly. Marketing should start before product development.

Startup 174

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. And fifth: Competitive risk. Second: Market risk. Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service?

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Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 200

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

Software Review 107

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Market research. Competition analysis. Development and rollout. Market research and competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Market research. Competition analysis. Development and rollout. Market research and competition.

Product 93

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

Startup 102

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. Twitter announced its acquisition of our competition Gnip almost a year ago. This misunderstands the situation so I want to clarify things a bit. Some evidence? You might ask yourself why?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. First-to-market’ is not a sustainable competitive advantage for startups, since sleeping giants do wake up when they see traction, and they can smash newcomers quickly. Marketing should start before product development.

Startup 105

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Market research. Competition analysis. Development and rollout. Market research and competition.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. They offered me a contract job at the intersection of science and graphics, which is satellite imaging, a dream come true. One of those tips, is a half an hour walk, five times a week results in 33 percent less risk of developing Alzheimers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. First-to-market’ is not a sustainable competitive advantage for startups, since sleeping giants do wake up when they see traction, and they can smash newcomers quickly. Marketing should start before product development.

Startup 57

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. This doesn’t make sense. What went wrong?

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. It would have been very easy for Bill to do a desk-based research project on how to improve the process.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. Their development process need to be more open & transparent to get the community excited about being part of reviving the MySpace user experience. •

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

Demand 71

Demand Customer Custom Tips 71

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

Demand 56

Demand Customer Custom Tips 56