Product Planning for Successful Technology Businesses - Blogs

• Do You Accept Online Payments?
  If you still need convincing that you should accept on-line payments, this is a great article to read. Whether you are running a business or are a self-employed consultant, there are not only …
• About Product Launch
  Don't launch your product. Can you believe that? Here's a fascinating article that makes a very convincing case about the downsides of doing a marketing launch prior to really having your product …
• Wesabe vs Mint: Who Won?
  A must read blog entry, where entrepreneur Marc Hedlund analyzes why his company shut down, and another start-up succeeded. He points out the most important principle: A great user experience pays …
• Customer Development not Product Development
  In this article we hear more from someone who agrees with Steve Blank's approach to product development, which is, abandon it and track customer development. As in Steve's article, this direct …
• What Not To Do: Product Development
  Here's a long blog entry that reviews the typical product development model and points out that it is a thing of the past. It's not often worth while reading about things that don't work. But in …
• Home Page Checklist
  As an Internet Entrepreneur, you already know that your business success depends on creating a killer product on a shoestring budget, and then watch it take off. However, there is no shortcut to …
• Best of 2008 - SEO Tools, Part 1
  This blog entry points to some great tools that you can use to check on the SEO viability of your website. There’s no such thing as too much checking ,when it comes …
• Microsoft BizSpark Embraces Startups With Free Software, Services
  Here’s a case of buyer beware, except you are not the buyer, but the recipient of a give-away. As Tech Crunch’s article points out, Microsoft is willing to give away the software for …
• Defining Branding
  The brand is the customer experience.

  And that’s all it is. It’s not primarily a story, or a logo, or a style, or even a value proposition. Primarily the brand is just what …

• Creating an Information Portal
  Webvanta allows you to create a information portal using an interview process, and cuts the costs of getting a web product up and running.