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TechCrunch+ roundup: Stealth recruiting, virtual sales kickoffs, Google Cloud’s Q4

TechCrunch

Traditionally, companies hold in-person sales kickoffs (SKOs) in January and February to network, educate sales teams about new products and devise strategies for the year ahead. These days, the convention centers and hotel ballrooms that once hosted those events are dark and quiet. Thanks very much for reading TechCrunch+ this week!

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Average Cost of Software Development

iTexico

If you’re looking for a Minimum Viable Product, your goal will be to get out a testing product as quickly as possible for feedback from the user base. Working with someone that shares your culture, while also being within reasonable time zone distance, makes the working process a breeze. Onshore Development Teams.

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AoAD2 Practice: Adaptive Planning

James Shore

One way to think about your first release is to think in terms of a “Minimum Viable Product” (MVP). Contrary to the common understanding of this term, an MVP isn’t the smallest product you can successfully ship. Instead, it’s a way of validating your product ideas. Hotels, however, only need a few days’ notice. (In

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Product Development Process: How to Bring Innovation to Life

Altexsoft

Luckily for them, the city was about to host a big design conference and all hotel rooms were booked in advance. SWOT analysis is another well-known technique for assessing a product’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. So the duo decided “to make a few bucks” by offering visitors a bed and breakfast in their loft.

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Lean Startup: Build Iteratively Using Feedback Loop and Lean Canvas

Altexsoft

Coherent perception: assure that your product stays consistent in terms of its architecture, usability, and adequacy of purpose. Having lots of similarities with the startup culture, lean has been transfigured for startups specifically via the Lean Startup. Shape the key assumptions about your product. What is it exactly?