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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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How to Build a Customer Feedback Form [+ Examples and Best Practices]

Userpilot

Any product manager should know how to quickly put together a comprehensive customer feedback form: they’re a secret weapon for unlocking deep user insights and gathering quality feedback. TL;DR A customer feedback form is a way to gather customer feedback in a structured way.

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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. In both cases, you’ll get back some type of feedback about how your product is performing. What are the goals of your feedback?

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Are you getting these 3 critical things from your customer feedback?

Centercode

When it comes to soliciting pre-release customer feedback, most teams focus on one thing: bugs. But while the focus on bugs isn’t misplaced, you should know that your users – whether you’re soliciting customer feedback through surveys, crowdsourced testing, […]

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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

Beware of “tar pit ideas”: ideas that receive initial positive feedback but may lead to long-term challenges. However, despite the positive feedback and validation, they can become difficult to pivot away from once their limitations become apparent. But if there are still untapped ideas, persevere and try them first.

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How Delta Testing Keeps the Focus on Customer Delight During Agile

Centercode

One of the greatest traits of agile development is that it allows teams to respond to customer desires quickly. Unlike the avalanche of changes you’d release every so often under Waterfall, this snowball approach of cumulative product evolution over time enables teams to act on what customers want, when they want it.

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Are you getting these 3 critical things from your customer feedback?

Centercode

When it comes to soliciting pre-release customer feedback, most teams focus on one thing: bugs. When you treat all customer feedback one way, you’re missing out on the full benefits of target market insights. Here are the 3 critical things you should be looking for in your customer feedback.