14 Revealing Signs You Love Your Startup Job
14 revealing signs you might love your job.
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- You see your internal and external customers not as people to satisfy but simply as people.
- You see your manager as a person you work with, not for.
- You help without thinking.
Above results from the http://culturecode.com/
So how does a great environment to work in with enthusiastic people passionate about delivering translate into product excellence?
Its obvious at a restaurant if the chefs infused love into the food, and the servers enjoy being there - you taste it and you feel it when you walk in to the environment.
But, is it obvious in other products - can you tell if the environment that the product was designed, developed and distributed in was one of “love and satisfaction” for all involved at every step of the way in the product lifecycle value chain?
Startups Are People: Michael Witham on Startups
Michael Witham on Startups
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Lessons learned:
- Business is hard. Startups are harder.
- Startups are not a recipe….Startups are dynamic, fluid, agile, in a state of constant change.
- Startups are not products, they are people.
Teams of people make the product, decide on the pricing, create marketing strategy, operate the business.
The most successful startups are not driven by products, they are driven by people making products.
The omission of “why?”
A few years back, I worked at a company which made a very simple mistake in how they delivered product, which unduly limited the amount internal innovation: the omission of why.
The company was in the…
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By Joe Stump
As a business, you’re trying to hire the best and brightest folks across your organization
- Allow lateral thinking among your employees by coloring in some of the context around why a feature is necessary
- Educate everyone else in the business of customer needs by answering why
- Share knowledge and the expression of intent to reinforce the notion of consistently delivering value.
Startup Product Talks
Live Broadcast: Jason Chicola, Founder And CEO Of Rev.com
Monday, May 20, 2013, 10:00 AM
Broadcast & Twitter Chat
On Your Device
11 Product People Attending
—->NOTE: This is a DIGITAL EVENT at your location on your device where-ever you are! Live Broadcast with Real Time Twitter Chat - all content available on-demand later in week: Participants are welcome to listen live at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/prodmgmttalk
Listen! http://bit.ly/19mmcpM
Call in to talk on the show (323) 927-2957 and participat…
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—->NOTE: This is a DIGITAL EVENT at your location on your device where-ever you are!
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#PMChat: Differences between Product and Project Management
Product Management vs. Project Management on PMChat PreGame Show
Friday, May 17, 2013, 8:30 AM
Broadcast & Twitter Chat
On Your Device
0 Product People Went
PMChat PreGame Show is a 15 minute podcast prior to the #PMChat weekly Twitter Chat for Project Managers.
Listen in http://bit.ly/10Afptk
Call in (646) 652-4418
Product Management vs. Project Management
These two roles are often confused and misunderstood. I’m delighted to join the discussion with expert project managers to discuss the differenc…
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PMChat PreGame Show is a 15 minute podcast prior to the #PMChat weekly Twitter Chat for Project Managers.
Listen in http://bit.ly/10Afptk
Call in (646)…
StartUP Product’s insight:
Questions for discussion:
- Help us differentiate between Product and Project Management - let’s start by defining the two: What is a Project, and what is a Product?
- What is the focus of Product Management (vs. the focus of Project Management)?
- What are the responsibilities involved in Product Management and those that are involved in Project Management?
- Where do you see Product Management in terms of its evolution and maturity as a profession, vs. Project Management?
- What are the skills required for effective Product Management, vs. those required for effective Project Management?
- What is the difference between where the passion lies for Product Managers vs. Project Managers?
- Why would one choose to go into Product Management vs. Project Management?
- What advice do you have for those who want to further their career in Product Management?
Startup Product Talks
Two Steps to Making Your MVP a Success with Poornima Vijayashanker
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 6:30 PM
Location details are available to members only.
9 Product People Attending
Too often companies spend a lot of time fixated on perfecting their prototype. After putting in a lot of effort to build it, they launch, but are left wondering why users aren’t using their product! In this talk I’ll cover the two most critical steps companies overlook, which can save them from wasted efforts and lead them to a successful launch….
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Too often companies spend a lot of time fixated on perfecting their prototype.
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Join us to learn the two most critical steps companies overlook, which can save them from wasted efforts and lead them to a successful launch.
YouEye Raises $3M For Its Webcam-Based Usability Testing Service With Emotion Recognition | TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.
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Kyle Henderson, CEO and Co-Founder at YouEye, is presenting tonight at Startup Product Talks Meetup at Atlassian in San Francisco.
Join us! http://bit.ly/XsDyiK
The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business (Guest post by Lars Lofgren of KISSmetrics)
[My friend Lars is a product marketer at KISSmetrics and loves helping SaaS businesses understand how their business is growing. He writes regularly for the KISSmetrics blog and his personal market…
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Stages
- Before Product/Market Fit
Metric #1: Qualitative Feedback
Metric #2: Measuring Product/Market Fit
- Beginning to Scale
Metric #1: Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
Metric #2: Churn
- Expansion
Metric #1: Lifetime Value (LTV)
Metric #2: Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)
There’s little reason to track a random engagement metric if you don’t know what your MRR or churn is.
How to Manage Innovation
In the final analysis, innovation has little to do with flashy conference presentations or exciting case studies. Much like any other business process, effective management entails being able to infuse core principles into everyday operations.
StartUP Product’s insight:
Innovation is, above all, about combination.
