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

Mixpanel

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Customer Development Process 101- The Product Manager Guide

Userpilot

It was developed by Steve Blank and popularized by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup. In the Customer Discovery phase, the team identifies problems, comes up with solutions, tests them, and assesses their potential to generate revenue. The method gained a lot of recognition after the publication of The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

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What Is Growth Engineering and How To Use It To Optimize User Experience?

Userpilot

A growth engineer’s responsibilities include testing out new ideas and building out new features or standalone tools to improve the customer experience. Like growth engineers, growth hackers hypothesize, prioritize and test growth strategies while trying to identify a viable shortcut. Dave McClure’s Pirate Metrics.

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Top 7 UX Research Agency in 2023

UX Studio: Product Management

We offer a wide range of user research services : UX audit , Expert review , Usability tests and User interviews, Persona and User Journey creation , Value Proposition Validation, and. The company always observes how real users interact with the platforms they’re testing. Conversion Strategy & Testing. Competitor Analysis.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

Part of my journey was 6 startups. My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. I observe, certainly in startups but also in really big companies and everything in between, most of the folks are incented to think about the current quarter. So if it’s still new in Sydney, great.

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

Andrew Chen

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. From our research, users seldom feel passionately — either positively or negatively — about the podcast app they’re using.

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

Andrew Chen

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. From our research, users seldom feel passionately — either positively or negatively — about the podcast app they’re using.