Product Development For Young Startups

The Roll of a Technical Workstream Lead I have served our Country in the armed forces for more than a dozen years and when I hear the term “technical workstream leader,” a Warrant Officer is the first though that comes to my mind. The army warrant officer definition is “a self-aware and adaptive technical expert, combat leader, trainer, and advisor” (U.S. Army Human Resource Command, 2004). The roll of the warrant officer in the military is being a technical expert, well versed in new technologies, and able to integrate them in support military operations. Warrant officers are technical workstream leaders and, for the last two years, I have been a warrant officer in the US Army.

In Initial Human and Financial Capital as Predictors of New Venture Performance, Cooper et al (1994), reviewed a sample of 2994 entrepreneurs across various sectors, high-tech and non-high-tech, to determine whether an entrepreneur’s upbringing, experiences and education had a statistically significant relationship with the probability of success.

There's something exciting about operating your own business. However, experts cite that nine out of ten startup businesses are doomed to fail. The most pressing reason for failure from that study was the product being manufactured. A close second, however, was financial mismanagement.

Marketing as well as strategic planning is a key source of a profitable and successful business. Most companies and products fail due to a lack of knowledge of how to properly run a business effectively. Companies are so focused on designing and manufacturing new products that they postpone until too late in the game (Why Most Products Launches Fail pg. 2). The ideas are great, however, the thought process of how to succeed long term and adhering to the goals set are in most cases are not obtainable goals. A balanced approach in succeeding in an effective business is to have other entrepreneurs with similar perspectives in business ventures to share a valuable input of do’s and don’ts that made their company’s popular.

The current entrepreneurs and millennials are on the success list in the business world just because they have managed to disrupt the status quo and has instead embraced the emerging new technology. On top of this, they have also been able to think outside the box and are always ready to take risks. Despite that these entrepreneurs and millennials reject the traditional strategies of operating corporate institutions, they are also interested in establishing companies, generating cash flow as well as pursuing their passion in business.

Because the external environment of any company is ever-changing, opportunities must be sought and taken to succeed and continue to compete in the marketplace. Such opportunities can be derived from a variety of reasons (such as new regulatory restrictions or internal mandates), so taking the time to properly identify prospective opportunities for product development is absolutely crucial for an advantage over existing and potential competitors (Crawford, Di Benedetto, 2015). While many companies' products are in a position where they could likely continue to thrive as they are, seeking and taking new opportunities to sustain product growth could pay off in the long run.

It is observed that the phrase “Entrepreneurship” has been used in disparate meanings by scholars around the world. In academic definition, entrepreneurship is the process by which individuals pursue opportunities without regard to resources they currently control(Stevenson & Jarillo). In venture capitalist, entrepreneurship is the art of turning an idea into a business(Fred Wilson). In a simple word, entrepreneurship is the process of designing a new business and start new businesses is the most obvious example of entrepreneurship. Most researchers would agree with a definition of entrepreneurship as an activity that involves the

With every one success, there was also multiple failures. This is exactly what happened to the company PAC. David Dukakis founded PAC in 1994. After a couple of years, the company was quickly falling through and Dukakis just looked at it as an entrepreneurship skill builder. After this major failure, he

Its developmental and transformative qualities particularly on emerging global economies, has given great significance to the concept of entrepreneurship. The impact of entrepreneurship has more contributory value is most The concept of entrepreneurship has received significant global attention across the developed and developing countries due to its capacity to transform the economy (Le & Nguyen, 2009:867). The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (2011:8) revealed that there are approximately 400 million entrepreneurs across 54 countries operating start-up businesses. These countries are grouped into three stages of economic development driven by: factor, efficiency and innovation (GEM, 2009:5). This is based on the level of

secretary of education states that “high-quality education" that encourages "creativity, imagination, and ingenuity’”. It is true that thirty percentage of startup business failure reasons of “unbalanced Experience or Lack of Managerial Experience”, followed by “lack of Experiences in line of goods or services” is about eleven percentage. Interestingly, company competence occupied the highest rate of failure of 46% (Statistic Verification, Entrepreneur Weekly, Small Business Development Center, Bradley University, university of Tennessee Research). In addition, successful entrepreneur usually possess “highly motivated and willingness to take initiative to execute duties” and have appropriately responsible to their activities, decision, and company’s outcomes.

The thought and problem solving process identified by Saras Saravathy is not the process advocated for technology start-ups. Therefore, a case can be made that a major contributor to the poor record of ecosystems to foster real economic growth is rooted in the fact that the vast majority of the ecosystems have a one-size-fits all mentoring model. They fail to recognize that there are different founder reasoning skills required for different types of businesses. Rather than nurturing all burgeoning businesses, most ecosystems only focus on technology start-ups. These systems smother all start-ups with non-differentiated business advice designed for technology start-ups. Instead, they should tailor the advice to the start-ups that are still generating their business and economic models.

Product and brand failures occur on an ongoing basis to varying degrees within most product-based organizations. This is the negative aspect of the development and marketing process. In most cases, this “failure rate” syndrome ends up being a numbers game. There must be some ratio of successful products to each one that ends up being a failure. When this does not happen, the organization is likely to fail, or at least experience financial difficulties that prohibit it from meeting profitability objectives. The primary goal is to learn from product and brand failures so that future product development, design, strategy and implementation will be more successful.

Starting a business is the latest trend. Just take a look at Instagram. Several profiles have the caption ‘Entrepreneur’. At this very moment, there is someone, somewhere working on an idea, a business plan or launching a startup. Entrepreneurship is on the rise like never before. The flexibility and independence that comes with being one’s own boss is attractive and worth taking the leap in starting a business. However, most people don’t know that being an entrepreneur is a grueling journey that can be very lonely and stressful at times. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), 50% of businesses fail during the first year. Starting a business can be a scary task, but the

Entrepreneurship is difficult to define throughout its history research. Even nowadays, this concept is still a debatable point (Rajendra, et al., 2017). Based on four decades of research, Gartner (1988) concludes that entrepreneurs are founders of new firms. Shane and Venkataraman (2000) consider entrepreneurship as “a new venture’s risk-taking endeavor seeking an opportunity” and Fortunato (2014) adds innovative value into the concept of entrepreneurship. Thus, research on the definition of entrepreneurship continue. According to those diverse views, I will interpret six unique entrepreneurial characteristics and theoretically analyze each one. Risk taker, need for achievement and proactivity as my strengthens will be illustrated with my experience. Innovativeness, internal locus of control and tolerance for ambiguity are my weaknesses, thus I will describe relevant successful Entrepreneurs’ experiences.

Starting a new product is never easy for a company. The difficulties they face are diverse in nature, and often they lack initiatives so that customers are not interested in the product.