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Is it okay to outsource MVP to a development agency?

NextBigWhat

Many founders are confused whether to outsource their MVP development to a development agency (or a freelancer) vs. build it fully in-house. The confusion lies in the fact that many investors / serial tech founders often share that one should own everything in-house and not outsource the development. Outsource the development.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2013 – Launch as Yimby. The Yimby homepage, 2013.

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Close.com’s Steli Efti on balancing competition and collaboration in sales

Intercom, Inc.

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. This year has been particularly exciting for us: we were able, after five and a half years of negotiation, to purchase Close.com as our new home and domain name, so we went through a rebrand from Close.io

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Why So Many Products Fail to Create Value

The Product Guy

Once we had a couple dozen big names, it was easy to convince the laggards. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. Enter Lean Customer Development. The So-Lala Product epidemic.

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The evolution of Ember at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Frameworks have drastically improved the capabilities of small teams to produce amazing experiences for people in very short periods of time. We have a small but really great infrastructure team who help maintain fast development environments. There was a time when you couldn’t do anything serious without jQuery.

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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. Teams may struggle to decide about the product’s features or design, potentially leading to waste.

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Slack’s Ceci Stallsmith on marketing your product platform

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

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