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Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

Product Talk

Sometimes it’s because they’ve personally experienced a pain point and want to address it. This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed.

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5 User Pitfalls to Avoid

The Product Guy

A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build. According to Jeff Gothelf , Lean Startup emphasizes making assumptions about your target market, testing them with rapid prototypes, and iterating based on customer feedback. That unearths sets of real-life goals and pain points.

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What a Pre-PMF Startup Should Look Like

The Product Coalition

In the end, a pre-product-market fit startup’s only job is to find product-market fit (PMF), and therefore to explore different solutions as smartly and efficiently as possible. Exploring 2 directions at a time, max We’re 5 people on our team, including 4 with an engineering background. And that is entirely true.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I think that was in 2004.

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Make New Product Features Stick

The Product Guy

Whether you consider your user base in light of market research or user research, both of these kinds of researchers use the patterns they discover to form personas. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product. Each one has at least one goal and at least one pain point.

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407: What product managers can learn from reimagining a customer problem – with Andrew Wolgemuth

Product Innovation Educators

A digital customer experience coupled with rapid physical product creation – insights for product managers. Both my co-founder Brian and I experienced pain points when we were buying engagement rings. We’re creating a user experience for engagement rings similar to Warby Parker, the home-try-on eyeglass company. [7:12]