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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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The Importance of Being Transaction-Ready: Navigating Seed and Series A Stage Rounds for Venture Capital Funding

DevelopmentCorporate

Venture capital funding, particularly at the Seed and Series A stages, is essential for the growth and development of startups. These early rounds help startups establish and scale their operations by providing capital for market research, product development, and team expansion.

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The product data VCs want to see before investing in your startup

Mixpanel

Today’s rising borrowing costs and dipping public markets are putting a squeeze on startup fundraising. If your startup is vying for an investment when there are fewer dollars to go around, it makes coming up with a compelling product idea and showcasing demand for it with data even more important.

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To MRD or not to MRD.

The Product Bistro

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. The leadership team asked for a formal Market Requirements Document to help their decision process.

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Setting a UX Budget? Answer These 6 Questions First.

UX Planet

So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? Curiously, many consumer startups allocate large ux budgets for the free parts of their products, & surprisingly little towards the ux journeys after initial conversion. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs.

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Sales and Marketing Metrics That Can Help Inform Your Roadmap

ProductCraft

Product professionals, whether they work at a startup or an enterprise, tend to ignore a goldmine of readily available quantitative data. What I am referring to is the sales and business development data stored in the company’s CRM and diligently maintained by the sales operations team.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too.