Wednesday, October 27, 2010

How to Avoid Fatal Errors Startups Make

The product development model is so focused on building and shipping the product that it ignores the entire process of testing your basic hypothesis about your business model (customers, channel, pricing, etc.) before you ship. Not testing these hypotheses upfront is a fundamental and, in many cases, fatal error most startups make.   Steven Blank

 

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

How the Best Product Development Companies Race to the Top

What the best product development companies do is create simple products, get feedback from customers, make the product better, and do all of this as fast as they can, or at least, ever faster.

You are dead if you do not create simple products; you are dead if you do not get feedback from customers; and you are dead if you do not do all of this quickly.

 

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