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Learn and Measure Before You Build: Using JTBD to Improve The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop

The Product Coalition

The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core tenet of the lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries. For example, in the job of “get to a destination on time,” three of the many variables are travel conditions, open times, and the distance between the parking spot and the destination.

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The Ultimate Guide to Customer Discovery: Lessons from Airbnb, Steve Blank, and The Mom Test

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Instead, the Customer Development model suggests that startups should first understand their customers and the problems they’re facing, then build a product to solve those problems. Customer Discovery and the Lean Startup Movement Enter Eric Ries and the Lean Startup movement. Think of it as a feedback loop.

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A flight-tested framework for effective goal-setting

Mixpanel

As an engineering leader, startup co-founder, and former PM heading up supply growth at Airbnb, I’ve learned a lot about successful goal-setting. Quick feedback loop: The results of your changes can be seen quickly. A good goal has the following attributes: Concrete : It’s clear and unambiguous (something that isn’t subjective).

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How to Deal with Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

But when you’re building a product with lots of technical or business unknowns—something many startups and product teams are doing—this process breaks down. Each step gives feedback both to us and to the next step in the process. The constant feedback loops that this system gives us may be the most important reason that it’s useful.

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Company culture

DISQO

Any sufficiently large employer necessarily has to dilute their culture over time to accommodate a massive workforce, which means that, for startups (and independent business units), there is always another game to play so long as you’re committed to focusing on a different set of players. They travel, experiment, and continuously learn.

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Company culture

DISQO

Any sufficiently large employer necessarily has to dilute their culture over time to accommodate a massive workforce, which means that, for startups (and independent business units), there is always another game to play so long as you’re committed to focusing on a different set of players. They travel, experiment, and continuously learn.

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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

But when you’re building a product with lots of technical or business unknowns—something many startups and product teams are doing—this process breaks down. Each step gives feedback both to us and to the next step in the process. The tracer bullet is a special kind of bullet that emits light as it travels through the air.