On Validating Product Ideas
- There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of product development processes: - You ask customers what problems they have, and build for those stated problems. In some domains this may take the form of asking customers what they want, and then building exactly what they want. - Or you don’t ask the customer anything, instead you iterate internally and... See more
Cedric Chin • Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste
More and more, I have lost conviction that “minimum viable products” make sense for product development.
It makes no sense to release a product with the core flow and then dismiss its viability after the aggregate data says people aren’t using it.
Instead, founders should have a fundamental... See more
Nikita Bierx.comAct from Instinct and Build to Learn
Many yearn for neat narratives, perfect prototypes, or bulletproof decks that placate stakeholders. But in this quest for tidy consensus, the work can stagnate, spinning its gears in the muck of groupthink and subtle fear. Forward progress is made when you trust the raw feeling that something is worth trying and... See more
Many yearn for neat narratives, perfect prototypes, or bulletproof decks that placate stakeholders. But in this quest for tidy consensus, the work can stagnate, spinning its gears in the muck of groupthink and subtle fear. Forward progress is made when you trust the raw feeling that something is worth trying and... See more