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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

When VCs and customers aren’t throwing money at whatever you tell them, it becomes a critical tool. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Part of the research is for fine-tuning how I explain the value as well as the service itself to founders and investors.

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How to get stakeholder buy-in for user research: 31 expert tips

Userzoom

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry.

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Make New Product Features Stick

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. Analyze patterns of use.

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Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

The Product Coalition

A customer persona is a great tool here since it helps you get into their general mindset and not just the specific interaction with your product. As a good product-leader-to-be (although I didn’t know it at the time), I asked them why did they want to do it, and then performed market research to understand the problem better.

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Strategic Debt Is the Silent Killer of Startups

The Product Coalition

So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. Another component could be to break into a new market segment. There could be product gaps, technology gaps (for example scale), regulation gaps, or even branding gaps. And guess what?

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Q&A with Steve Johnson, VP of Products, Pragmatic Institute

Revulytics

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. Walking back announcements that marketing – or worse, the CEO – has made. Consultants like me need a quote from Peter Drucker. You said we need to focus on problems, not solutions.