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5 Steps to Validate New Hi-Tech Product Planning

Smarter With Gartner

Hi-tech product planning is a high-stakes effort that requires decisions to be made in the face of uncertainty — it’s important to know if customers will embrace the new offering or not. Product marketers must adjust their messaging in a downturn and support new strategies in a recovery from a disruptive crisis.

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“Content Free” Content

Partners in Excellence

The email was well constructed, it served its purpose by motivating me to “click” for more information. Did they think a pretty picture and an “Enroll” button was a minimum viable product? (I It’s content that’s actually a thinly disguised “buy mine” sales pitch.

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

ConversionXL

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. movies, songs, products, profiles, etc.). For inventory-driven sites, the website is a big part of the product. Look at Amazon.

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The Ultimate Guide to Entrepreneurship

Hubspot

Lucky people pitch often. 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. Set yourself up for luck. Understand that execution is everything.

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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. Your MVP could be pitching 10 publications and tracking how many positive responses you get. 4) Go on an informational interview (with no ulterior motives).

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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

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. What were his core learnings from that?