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Bring Startup Speed to your Innovation Team with Personas

Your Ideas are Terrible

High-functioning teams use personas in every customer-facing decision: feature design, usability, landing pages, content, advertising campaigns, etc. In Lean UX Jeff Gothelf prefers to use the term “proto-persona” with innovative teams. Personas are used … well … everywhere. Instead of asking …. Will someone pay for this feature?

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The Power of a Good Strategy

Leanstack

They borrowed the idea from a close rival (Overture) and doubled down on this strategy when it outperformed their banner-based advertising approach by 3X. If you use a high-level concept in your Lean Canvas, that is usually one or more analogs at work, e.g., an Airbnb for parking spaces. disintermediation, and sharing economy (e.g.,

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We Don’t Research. We Build.

Boxes and Arrows

The idea was basically to turn commercial spaces into the comments thread below any HuffPo story (granted, a way to place more advertising in front of people). Then I started talking about getting what they had in front of users, testing the hypotheses of the product, iterating the design based on this: all basic UX and Lean (and Lean UX!)

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The Key to Effective Value Proposition Development

Taivara

The goal of this document is to help you understand the pain and motivations of your customer. highly targeted advertising channels like Google Adwords or Facebook ads to. But in the lean startup methodology, all we’re looking for the one point of extreme frustration that we can eliminate. Make sure you document them.