product development posts, articles, and infographics

A Start-up Journey (Product Development)

May 23, 2011 by Steve Mordue with 71 views

Okay, so you got your idea. Now what? I think that you start with two lists, “Minimum Requirements” and “Features”. Minimum Requirements are exactly those things that your product will need at minimum to compete at all. If you can’t develop these, you should not be trying to develop this product at all. I have seen many people who see a... [read more]

Cup of Joe: Are You Profitable? Or Pragmatic?

April 3, 2010 by Andy Beal with 128 views

I do a lot of different things in the Internet marketing industry. But I think what I do the most, and quite possibly the best, is product development. I write code, I manage designers, and I promote products. All of these things have to do with product development. Over the years I’ve come to believe that every product developer... [read more]

Trends shaping 2010: Dang it, we're getting old!

March 15, 2010 by Drew McLellan with 259 views

Back in December, I wrote about some of the trends that would be influencing all of our businesses in 2010. I thought it might be helpful to look at some of these trends a bit more closely. Let's dig into the trend that we've actually been anticipating for the past several years. After all, we've known that the baby... [read more]

What Small Business can Learn from Domino’s Pizza

February 24, 2010 by Daniel Kehrer with 258 views

Domino’s made headlines recently by admitting customers hated its pizza, and pledged a complete pizza makeover. It was a rare instance of a company asking customers what they thought, and then actually doing something about it. The company decided to reinvent its core product “from the crust up.” That takes guts, and it offers a lesson... [read more]

Question for you: what stops you from testing your biz ideas early? What helps?

January 28, 2010 by Pamela Slim with 144 views

I am really obsessed with the topic of test often and fail fast. I wrote a whole chapter about it in my book, and still feel like I barely scratched the surface. By “test often and fail fast,” I mean the ability to create a very small prototype or sample of your product or service and get it in front of your target market for feedback... [read more]

Thoughts on Innovation and Product Releases

March 10, 2009 by Binnur Al-Kazily with 86 views

Innovation is not synonymous with new product releases. There is certainly an overlap, but innovation is not just about making new stuff. Otherwise, we would be in the perpetual cycle of: think ⇒ make ⇒ waste. Wait, we are… But, that is a topic for another post.Many firms use the percentage of revenue from new products or number of new... [read more]

Commiting to Zero

May 23, 2008 by Gadi Shamia with 40 views

In his fascinating book, Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely describes the lure of the zero priced item. Dan provides examples from the real life: in his experiments, people selected Lindt truffles for 30 cents over Hershey kisses for 3 cents, but when given a choice, preferred a now free Hershey kiss over 27 cents truffle. The... [read more]

Financing Winners Like NewsGator

December 17, 2007 by Brad Feld with 54 views

Last week NewsGator announced that it had raised a $12m round led by new investor Vista Ventures and existing investors Mobius Venture Capital and Masthead. Greg Reinacker - NewsGator's founder / CTO reflected on the progress from the first $1m investment that Mobius made and Jeff Nolan's talked about our excitement of getting... [read more]