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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. It focuses on differentiation and low cost simultaneously to break the value-cost tradeoff. This strategy rejects traditional competitive business frameworks focused on outperforming rivals.

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Customer Development Process 101- The Product Manager Guide

Userpilot

The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems. The aim of the Customer Validation stage is to develop a differentiation strategy and the sales funnel and to close the first deals. It was developed by Steve Blank and popularized by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup.

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. It focuses on differentiation and low cost simultaneously to break the value-cost tradeoff. This strategy rejects traditional competitive business frameworks focused on outperforming rivals.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently 5. There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently. Nothing matters more than retention 2.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. Many apps for listening to podcasts, but little differentiation or loyalty. I’d be interested in other products that tap into the trends around AirPods, Alexa, voice assistants, etc., but may not directly sound like podcasting. The app landscape.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. Many apps for listening to podcasts, but little differentiation or loyalty. I’d be interested in other products that tap into the trends around AirPods, Alexa, voice assistants, etc., but may not directly sound like podcasting. The app landscape.