Steve Jobs’ 9 Product Development Tactics for Founders. | VC & Startup Jobs.
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The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget “minimum viable products”—ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying ot... See more
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The Founding Hypothesis
Teams that build winning products share some fundamental traits. They know their customers—and what problem they can solve for them. They know which approach to take—and why it’s superior to the alternatives. And they know what they’re up against—and how to radically differentiate from the competition.
Teams that build winning products share some fundamental traits. They know their customers—and what problem they can solve for them. They know which approach to take—and why it’s superior to the alternatives. And they know what they’re up against—and how to radically differentiate from the competition.
Or consider Apple’s principles, written by Mike Markkula in 1977, when the company was a startup on the verge of launching its first major product, the Apple II. Paraphrasing, the three principles are:
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For the rest of his career, Jobs would understand the needs and desires of customers better than any other business leader, he would focus on a handful of core products, and he would care, sometimes obsessively, about marketing and image and even the details of packaging. “When you open the box of an iPhone or iPad, we want that tactile experience
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