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Product Management Skills: Market Research

The Product Coalition

Market research, for Product Managers, is an absolute necessity for success. Much of the time, you’ll find that your company has already outsourced your market research to a firm. But if you’re working on your own project or at a smaller startup, you might find this responsibility falling into your lap.

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The entrepreneur’s ultimate guide to market research

The Product Coalition

While researchingmarket research”, I found it’s one of those topics that can be overwhelming, simply because I had to go through endless sources, most of which are very similar, and each carrying only a small piece of the puzzle. What’s Market Research? Do not confuse the term with “marketing research”.

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Market Research vs User Research: How To Overcome Uncertainty

UX Studio

Easier said than done… Is it not just a question of market research vs user research? We wrote this to help you choose the right research methods more easily. In this article we answer: How do we distinguish between types of research? What characteristics define market research vs user research?

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. At the very start, you are essentially seeking to validate assumptions you’ve made about the market appetite for your solution. Again the goal here is to treat this stage of the process as primary market research.

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Traditional Buyer Personas Don’t Work: How Matt Lerner Understands Consumers

The Product Coalition

Startup growth expert, Matt Lerner, talks about his million dollar lesson learned while characterizing consumers. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product people know that their greatest value lies in how well they understand consumers.

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How Startups can compete in the Online Dating Market

The Product Coalition

Recently we decided to enter this market in our own company( JoySpot ), so I started studying this market heavily to learn how can a Startup penetrate it and be competitive versus titans like Tinder. If you don’t have time to read the whole article, I recommend you to go straight to the tips for startups in the end.

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What I Learned From 3.5 Years as a Product Leader at a VC Backed SaaS Startup

The Product Coalition

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. I joined this highly motivated group of fifteen people in September 2015. I’d been then asked to take over the marketing department on top of my previous responsibilities (product marketing and product management).