CTO Operations

Magazine on Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Marketing and Products

December 17, 2012
by Guntram Bechtold
0 comments

21 Facts about Fab.com: Design & Business

On good Days they make 500k USD per Day in Revenue. Quite a lot for a Business thats just over two years. Fab works with 8.000 Designers world Wide. The Network is their Success. They buy directly most of their … Continue reading

September 19, 2012
by Guntram Bechtold
0 comments

The Lean Startup: Principles matter not tactics

Things Learned: Tuning your product for Success is: Set Userbased KPI and Reviewdates at start the only way that you can get yourself to pivot is if you make concrete predictions ahead of time. these predictions need to be: Create … Continue reading

March 27, 2012
by Guntram Bechtold
0 comments

Product Development – Hands on, Step by Step Course

How to be a Lean Product Ninja Interesting Article About Product Development Product-Market Fit Case Study: Summary 4 weeks from 1st meeting to validated product concept with zero coding Cost $1,500 to talk to 20 users ($75 each) 1 round … Continue reading

February 25, 2012
by Guntram Bechtold
0 comments

Balanced scorecard compared: Germany, US and Japan based Companies

The Meta-Concept behind the Balanced score card is that a set of complex factors add up to success or failure of a Project or Company. This fact is was made utterly visible by Robert S. Kaplan in his HBS report. … Continue reading

February 25, 2012
by Guntram Bechtold
1 Comment

Measuring Customer and Employee Relationships

Critical Factors for Customer Relation and Product marketing “Understand me and give me the right information and advice” “Give me convenient access to the right products” “Appreciate me and get things done easily, quickly, and right” Measuring Customer Relation Number … Continue reading

February 14, 2012
by Guntram Bechtold
0 comments

Megatrend: complete risk avoidance

Avoiding to take responsibility Both, on an individual level and on corporation and government level we see that a megatrend is evolving during the last years. This new trend can is titled “risk management and risk optimization”. The root of … Continue reading