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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

If somebody had been asked to do research about the year 1800 into how transportation could be improved, what would he have done? Berlyne As product managers, we have all enthusiastically dived into customer feedback, hoping to find insights that will take our product game to the next level.

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Q&A with Digital Transformation Experts: Liz Jensen from Visa

Alchemer Mobile

Prior to her time in fintech, she founded two connected car startups focused on car app development and the future of transportation. I was talking to insurance companies and telecoms to understand how they could leverage the car data to create efficiencies and excellent customer experience. Here’s what Liz had to say!

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Future Food Tech: How Modern Is Changing the Way We Eat

The Product Coalition

Here are some future food tech trends to watch out for: Personalized diets: Future food tech to meet the needs of individual customers Personalization of food has been predicted as the future for at least the last 20 years. Delivery service Due to supply chain disruptions, businesses are now facing the challenge of transporting food.

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Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test before Investing in Ideas

The Product Coalition

MVP: Test an Idea Before Investing In It In 2010, businessman Joel Gascoigne came up with an idea to create an app that would allow social media users to plan the date and time of posting. When the product met users’ expectations, the entrepreneur continued to develop its functionality. To begin with, the team will offer a MVP?—?a

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The story behind the chirp: Intercom’s notification sound

Intercom, Inc.

The sounds you hear every day have been carefully curated not just to drive you towards a specific action but also to set a certain mood and encapsulate the brand that created them – just think about the Window’s 95 startup sound, a six-second-long chime composed by Brian Eno and one of the most recognizable sounds of all time.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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The Heart of Your Product Strategy: Selecting to Win

The Product Coalition

You have to identify insights, clarify goals and assumptions, and align with multiple stakeholders. While all steps are vital, I have often seen that successful strategies come to life in a moment of truth: when you select those insights, that will truly make the difference. Furthermore, that differentiation needs to be defendable.