One of the most primary decisions to make when looking to establish a new eCommerce business online is choosing the platform on which you build your venture, and there are many.
The Growing market of Content Management systems (CMS)cms offers an unlimited variety of eCommerce solutions that differ in scale, pricing and flexibility. While each seems to provide for different sets of needs, it seems that more and more online stores, and particularly the larger stores, choose to work with Magentom.
In recent years, WordPress has become the most well-known and commonly used web platform, with over 75 million websites in 120 languages, that comprise of 47% of the market share among CMS technologies.
When you first start to plan the development of your html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product, one of the main issues to deal with is finding the right people to do your product development. Product development is usually done by a team of which one of the major components besides UEX designers are software developers or programming coders.
This article will deal with the complex issue of finding the right coders and how to manage the development process all while keeping in mind your timetable and budget constraints.
Consistently I am asked to sign a NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) usually sent to me by entrepreneurs before I review or listen to a new startup offering. Although there is a lot that has already been written about on this subject, I often refuse to sign them outright, and would like to add my thoughts as to why.
This article expands a bit the issue of the kinds of relationships there are between investors and founders. How to manage the respective roles as, as either a founder of a startup or as an investor in a venture, is a major issue that needs to be rightly managed in early seed ventures and startups in general in order to achieve success.
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Providing support for your html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product testers (sometimes known as Alpha version users) is an ongoing process that requires preparation and considerable time and effort in order to receive the kinds of feedback that you are after.
This is the second article which describes another type of venture, one where the product release was done to an ever-growing audience of testers which were not controlled. Because of these complexities, dealing with and offering support to our initial users required a different approach. Read More …
Providing support for your html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product testers (sometimes known as Alpha version users) is an ongoing process that requires preparation and considerable time and effort in order to receive the kinds of feedback that you are after.
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Right now I am busy helping to bootstrap a new startup that has a unique idea and niche market aimed for middle-aged women. In this article, I would like to share the process we are going though and how we are in the early stages of forming our team and approaching seed investors. html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>wireframes and requirements documents in advance. Once you select the right team to develop your html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product, potential investors will come to you." width="600" height="350" srcset="" data-srcset="https://d2haskyseezqzi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/focus-groups3.jpg 600w, https://d2haskyseezqzi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/focus-groups3-300x175.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"/> Read More …
When developing your html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product mobile App, the first thing you need to define is the limits of how far you want to go. You need to decide how far you want to enhance the html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>user experience in juxtaposition with the need to develop the essential functionality required to test it as a html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product. Sometimes keeping a balance between the two needs is challenging
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In this article, I would like to share some online education resources that you can use to help you in the early stages of developing your invention or idea as an entrepreneur.
These online educational resources includes videos, podcasts, recorded interviews and articles that often times are mostly free allowing you to easily prepare for yourself a self training plan on almost any subject, giving you the opportunity to listen to some of the most experienced entrepreneurs or lecturers explaining their views and experiences as well as giving their sales pitch. Read More …
Social media marketing has revolutionized the way young startups gather and interact with their target audiences and consequently it has influenced the way that we gather potential new customers. Social Media marketing is a good way to test your html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product assumptions and gather user requirements. It may also help when searching for a html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>monetization model, and nonetheless aids in finding users for the beta release of your html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product.
There are four keys to utilizing the power of Social Media. First is understanding the different methods and possibilities available when using social media. Second, prepare a plan for what is needed and expected from using the social media. Third, design and test the methods you plan to use to achieve your goals. Finally, execute your strategies while continuously adjusting your techniques and method, depending on the results you get.
Taxonomies systems for naming and organizing things into groups that share similar characteristics. Initially emerging from Biology and Library Sciences, we increasingly tend to use Taxonomies for describing the outcome structure of buildings, or for labeling the navigation system of a given application.
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Wire-frames are useful in the preparation of mock-ups and are also helpful in the process of developing your html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Minimum Viable Product. html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Wireframes are the output of choice for interaction designers and product managers, because it allows them to easily and quickly draw a page schematic or screen html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>blueprint that represents the skeletal framework of the application or any part of it. html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Wireframes enable developers to envision not only how the product works but also gives them the opportunity to explain any perceived html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>user flows at the design stage.
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