Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brikker (anonymized), a children’s toy manufacturing startup, was like a hamster on a wheel. So here’s how Brikker would use the BADIR data analysis framework to overcome all the reasons startup pivots fail. Is this not a far better, data-driven direction for a startup? Going nowhere fast. or “How do we boost engagement?”.

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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

Question: How do you test a customer’s willingness to pay for a solution? What a lot of teams—especially startup founders—do is ask their customers, “Hey, would you pay for this? A Better Approach: Run a Demand Test We can simulate the buying experience and see if it resonates with people. Let’s dive in.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2019

Know how to test a product by measuring risk through desirability, viability, and feasibility. We are discussing a valuable new book titled Testing Business Ideas. He helps companies all over the world find problem-solution fit using lean startup, design thinking, and business model innovation. The lead author is David Bland.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. Welcome to Product PickEm 2025 , where the best emerging product tool startups go head-to-head in a bracket-style competition, and YOU decide which ones rise to the top via our LinkedIn polls on the Productside page.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 26, 2021

Everyone – or so we’re told – has the dream of joining or founding a hot startup and making their fortune, all while really proving their product chops. The post Managing Your Startup Options – Karthik Suresh on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. from an early stage. from an early stage.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Raiza previously worked on AI Test Kitchen and has a background in startups, payments, and ads. This allows them to move faster and iterate quickly, much like a startup. Often, powerful technology is already available; the magic lies in how you interact with it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What are the attributes of the framework?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Jake Knapp // Google Ventures Jake is a Design Partner at Google Ventures where he helps startups build better product design. He also created Google Ventures’ sprint process and authored the book Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. How to Test Prototypes with Customers: The Five-Act Interview.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Example: Sarah is a support manager at a fast-growing startup. Test if the story makes sense. Not a persona. Ask yourself: Who is this for? Whats frustrating them? What triggers their search for something better? Her team is buried in tickets, and customer satisfaction is slipping. Thats who your story is really about.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It emphasizes the importance of understanding users and building, testing, and iterating quickly. These are some of the questions on the quiz that Eva and her CEO created to test employees’ understanding of Continuous Discovery Habits. Introducing Continuous Discovery Habits to Passion.io Click the image to see a larger version.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

touches on what startups should and shouldn’t do when striving for product-market fit. Perhaps that’s why Enzo Avigo, CEO of June , reportedly recommends several “dos” and “don’ts” on LinkedIn on how startups can navigate their journey towards product-market fit. But these methods don’t work well for startups. CEO of June.so

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The reasons why Saas startups are recently making a huge wave to become the next trillion-dollar industry. Over the past years, investment in SaaS startups has been increasing steadily. Saas startups that provide software as a service have a good delivery model. Key Benefits of Saas — Must know for Saas Startups 1.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

While startups need to move fast, getting everyone on board with the decisions that are being made is crucial to actually execute fast. The proposals were better, the team had a vested interest to make them work and it was much easier to get the CEO on board, even if it was a feature or test they would not otherwise have supported.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

Some aspect of the above story is often seen playing out within many companies and startups alike everywhere. As the Lean Startup methodology suggests, build-measure-learn. What: What is the minimum set of features that you could build, and test that you are indeed solving the needs of the users?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 2, 2016

That being said, coming from a company that focuses on qualitative research methodologies (usability testing, in-depth interviews, and Friendship Groups™) it was interesting to hear that one of the balancing acts that PMs deal with regularly is the balance between qualitative and quantitative research.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. If you look into the problem carefully, you’ll see that all the relevant reasons for failure : changing requirements, weak arrangement, insufficient investment and test activities?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, with the growing need for innovation and agility, many of these companies are looking at methodologies like Lean Startup to help them adapt and thrive in turbulent waters. In this scenario, trying to implement the Lean Startup methodology might be like suggesting that “shortcut” to the ocean liner.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Around 2013, a serial entrepreneur named Mark Randall sold his startup to Adobe and joined Adobe. He realized innovation in a big corporation such as Adobe looks very different from innovation in a startup. You should test a lot of ideas with a little money. You should test a lot of ideas with a little money.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. After re-prioritizing the backlog, I created a new process where at the end of each sprint, the team would present a demo, and we would test and close the JIRA tickets together.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. We agreed “done” would be when the user story had been checked in, code reviewed, QAed and deployed into our staging (test) environment. THE CHALLENGE.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

She’s author of Build Better Products: a Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products ( US / UK ), the funniest trove of practical advice we’ve come across, as well as UX for Lean Startups ( US / UK ), which we didn’t have time to read before our chat. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2024

There are so many multivariate testing tools available that it can be difficult to choose the right one. TL;DR Multivariate testing is a technique for experimenting with multiple variations of different elements on the same page to determine which combination yields the best results. Leanplum – Best for mobile A/b testing.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

Why People Abandon the Most Important Tool in Product Development Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To get over that hump, we talked with Prof Jonathan Hassell about how and when to embed and test for accessibility (or a11y!), To get over that hump, we talked with Prof Jonathan Hassell about how and when to embed and test for accessibility (or a11y!), Testing for accessibility. Making products that work for everybody.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Janice built her career in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. She also guides several venture-funded startup companies, federal government entities, and non-profit organizations. It was the hottest startup in history.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Data from 99firms found that 77% of companies run A/B tests. Many companies choose Mixpanel A/B testing to run their product experiments. To help you make a decision, in this blog, we will go over the specifics of A/B tests in Mixpanel, uncover its pros and cons, and introduce you to a better alternative.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Of course, everyone knows to dutifully responds to the question with “user testing” so I look for a few layers of depth on top of that. User testing is great for learning and testing your assumptions, but often times it doesn’t give you a clear answer and instead gives you more questions.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 13, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions. Assumption testing is evaluative. And assumption testing is the best way to do that. Assumption testing is evaluative. Prototyping and A/B tests are invaluable tools in our toolbox. We need both.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s free, available to everyone, and if you can pull off a great launch, Product Hunt can change your startup’s growth trajectory. However, the little-known truth is that of the thousands of startup founders who try their hand at Product Hunt each week, very few see any impact. One name kept coming up: Leo Bosuener.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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