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Product Idea Validation: 6 Steps for Ensuring Successful Products

Userpilot

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom, Inc.

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Professional Spotlight: Zoe Chaves of Splitwise

The Product Coalition

In this Professional Spotlight interview, Zoe discusses her journey at Splitwise, the future of the finance app category , and the current growth challenges that mobile apps face. What are some key features that differentiate Splitwise from other finance/billing apps? In early 2015 I earned the promotion to product manager.

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Product Owner vs. Product Manager: Differences, Role, Duties & Why You Need Both

Userpilot

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! Product Manager’s roles is the stage in the product development process where each is involved.

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Baremetrics’ Josh Pigford on launching – and pivoting – quickly

Intercom, Inc.

Remarkably, the team stuck around with few exceptions. One of your first hires should be someone who can nerd out on your company’s finances. In reality, you may not see a positive return from a new hire for 12 to 18 months. I’m not a good developer, but I know enough to sort of be dangerous.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? What are the important things that flow from the product management group to development? Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.