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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

ProductPlan

You created your product to help customers solve a problem and align with your organization’s product vision. Your understanding of the problem may have evolved based on observing customers using your product. It should go without saying that you want to get customer feedback. What is crowdsourcing?

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Crowdsourced Testing vs. Beta Testing: What’s the Difference?

Centercode

Those aspects show the difference between crowdsourced testing and beta testing. Crowdsourced testing, like beta testing, gives testers real products to use in the real world before release. Bug focus vs. experience focus. How Crowdsourced Testing Works. your potential customers) is central to beta testing.

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AI’s Impact on Design: Insights from Goodpatch CEO Naofumi Tsuchiya

freshtrax

One area where the impact of AI technology is noticeable is in what we call “crowdsourcing businesses.” According to some institutional investors I know, sales in some categories of major crowdsourcing services, such as illustration, have significantly declined. To be successful, you need to act as though the user’s pain is your pain.

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Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Pivoting, resilience, avoiding tar pit ideas, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Vanta —Automate compliance. During his time at YC, he’s advised more than 35 YC unicorns, including DoorDash, Amplitude, Webflow, and Retool, and has worked across 21 different YC batches.

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Developing a Test Strategy for the Agile World

Centercode

Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How does your strategy conform to different development methodologies? How you involve real users in beta testing? I have 20 years of experience in the testing industry. Adam : Sure! Can they act on this information?”

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6 Things I Learned About PLG and Customer Success

Gainsight

Have you ever heard the one about the client that “was a little different than your other customers?” In the Customer Success world, this scenario has become a bit of a joke. So when a Customer Success leader, as one of OUR clients, tells us about how different they are, it’s reasonable to be a bit skeptical.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. But we quickly realized that the job of sales at Intercom is two-fold: to drive revenue for the company and be the voice of our customers.