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Can Lean Product Management Help Startups Build Strong Products?

The Product Coalition

In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. In the startup context.

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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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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

By Mary Moore, copywriter at Shakuro Branding holds the promise of propelling your venture to new heights, capturing hearts, and securing your place in the market. For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous. How to avoid: Recognize the value: market research is an investment, not an expense.

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Product Validation: Testing and Researching Ideas to Ensure Product Success

The Product Coalition

We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. Idea validation is a process where a specific product, service, or business idea is tested in various ways to determine its viability. Market research Every product design cycle should start with a robust research phase.

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3 Innovative Services All Startups Need to Invest In

freshtrax

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , 20% of startups fail within their first year, 50% fail by their fifth year, and 70% are done by year 10. With so many pressing matters at the forefront of an entrepreneur’s mind, there are many reasons why a startup may fail. Vested is a startup helping small businesses find new employees.

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

Whereas many organizations have deep and meaningful expertise doing large-scale market research, their findings are hitting critical limitations. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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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. Again the goal here is to treat this stage of the process as primary market research. Are they keen to test it out? Identify a market specific methodology.