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How to Design Your Customer Validation to Maximize Product/Market Fit

Sachin Rekhi

In my previous post I detailed how I typically go about documenting the initial set of product/market fit hypotheses for an early stage startup and each of the key elements that are important to capture as part of it. Customer Validation Process.

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10 Product Differentiation Examples From Famous Brands For Inspiration

Userpilot

Are you a SaaS product manager in search of product differentiation examples to inspire your differentiation strategy? In this article, we’ll explore the types of product differentiation strategies and go over cases of real-world brands that have used these strategies to drive product growth.

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A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses

Sachin Rekhi

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. Target Audience. Problem You're Solving.

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The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?achieving Product-Market Fit in 6 steps

The Product Coalition

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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Product Marketing Strategy: Definition, Steps, and Examples

Userpilot

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. TL;DR A product marketing strategy is a roadmap for how a new product will be positioned, priced, and marketed.

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The Solutions Value Chain: A Framework for Strategic Customer Value

Product Management University

The Solutions Value Chain is a framework that helps you uncover real, strategic value for your customers—from the top of their organization all the way down to the people in the trenches doing the day-to-day work. Of course, every product company wants users to love their products—no surprise there.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 7 of 10 – Portfolio Positioning Is What Makes Your Product Positioning More Strategic

Product Management University

Even more strategic when customers use both, right? Beyond a healthier balance sheet, why do your target customers care about cash flow relative to their big picture strategy? This is what differentiates you more than anything. 80% of your value story is built around things customers do and why they do it, not your products.