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How UX Researchers Can 4X Their Usability Test Response Rates With Userpilot

Userpilot

Usability testing is an invaluable resource for UX researchers…but only if you’re able to recruit participants in the first place. This is a problem that our own UX researcher at Userpilot, Lisa, faced when she tried recruiting participants the traditional way. Recruiting usability test participants via email.

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. 99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product.

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What I Look For in a Senior Designer Portfolio at a Consumer-Facing Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

Customizing my recruiting process Before we get into my portfolio criteria, here’s some brief context on our company and what’s important to us so you can see how you might customize your own hiring criteria. Our product is also consumer-facing (donors and recipients). I’m always curious to learn more from the larger community.

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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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Scaling to the Masses - Fit Your Product for a Larger User Base

Speaker: Dustin Smith, Sr. Product Manager, Incubator

If a product can't withstand a growing user base and diverse team, it'll never leave the think tank. Whether you're running a small startup or trying to get your idea to take off in a large corporation, you'll need the right tools and perspective to scale your product.

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The Only Leading Metric to Measure Product-Market Fit and How to Use It

The Product Coalition

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. but nothing around how to measure it.

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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. He realized he was asking the wrong questions about consumers.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. This is not an overnight realization, and the key to developing an iterative process to PMF is understanding what would make your customer's life easier.

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The Secrets to Building Unique, Personalized Experiences For Your Customers

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Author of "You: The Product," Entrepreneur, and Digital Leader

Not all customers are the same. The spectrum of our customer bases reflects the unique makeup of our different generations, backgrounds, identities, and much more. We cannot just simply provide the same 'one size fits all' experience to make a quick customer here and there.

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Put Your Data to Work: The Complete Playbook

What do startups and Fortune 500 companies have in common? We’ve created this interactive playbook to help you use your data to provide actionable insights that will lead to better business decisions and customer outcomes. An interactive guide filled with the tools to turn your data into a competitive advantage.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Apply tested plays to your funnel - Use real-world scenarios, triggers, actions and expected results to improve your entire funnel. Use our proven data-driven plays to grow your pipeline and crush your revenue targets.