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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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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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Clearbit’s VP of Customer Success on turning economic headwinds into a growth opportunity

Intercom, Inc.

First, as the economy is buffeted by turbulent seas, companies must batten down the hatches and devote their time and attention to their current customers. Unlike previous financial downturns, businesses have more access than ever to technology that can put their data to work. There’s a high cost to these flubs.

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How Embedded Product Support Can Boost Customer Adoption

TSIA

For our fall Technology Services World conference , we used the crowdsourcing approach to select a theme. We gathered input from members and asked our various advisory boards for feedback on the suggestions, arriving at what I think is truly a “big tent” topic: The Art and Science of the Customer Journey.

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Pulse Everywhere: The Biggest Product Announcements Ever From Gainsight

Gainsight

Interestingly, when you are a leader in a particular space, like Gainsight is in Customer Success technology, the right path consists of multiple important pillars, all connected and working together. One, we love our customers and dedicate a large percentage of our roadmap towards helping them achieve more with Gainsight.

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Crowdtesting – all you need to know

Usersnap

The customer finding it could damage your reputation. Negative online feedback is just a finger’s swipe away. It’s nice to have your customers testing the application. Crowdtesting is simply user testing through broader groups of people. Let’s look at the primary “Crowdsourcing” concept first. Let’s explore more.