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5 Steps to Validate New Hi-Tech Product Planning

Smarter With Gartner

The first and simplest step in hi-tech product planning is to share the concept inside and outside your organization. To start, you should pitch the idea to five or more people within your professional network. Step 5: Release a minimum viable product. Listen for critical feedback. Step 2: Examine the market.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

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Topics are an important feature for social networks, just as genres are for music or categories for ecommerce sites. It’s a great example of how product features can drive organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. Start small.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

Understanding the motivation for the founder(s) and investor(s) is very important. Seed: This is the initial stage of funding, and is generally used to employ the founding team and begin market research and product development. The company is past the MVP (minimum viable product) and is showing initial signs of success.

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The Ultimate Guide to Entrepreneurship

Hubspot

Luckily, there are all sorts of things you can do invite luck: Lucky people network. In the long run, it’s better to focus on developing a minimum viable product , launching, and optimizing based on feedback, rather than trying to get it right the first time with an untested idea of a “perfect” product.

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How to Figure Out If You're Ready for a Career Change

Hubspot

Tech companies test their assumptions by creating a “minimum viable product” (or, the most basic version of their idea possible) and releasing it to the public. 4) Go on an informational interview (with no ulterior motives). Try attending a conference, meet up, or event for professionals with your potential job.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

You build something quickly, a minimum viable product. And so we started Twilio to solve the problem with bringing communications out of its legacy, which is in hardware and physical networks and bringing it into its future, which is software. And every time that happened, I said, well, this is insane. Think about it.