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Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste
Product discovery is a key piece of preventing these mistakes. During product discovery, you validate that users actually have the problems you think they do, and that they would actually value the solutions your team came up with.
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TESTING ASSUMPTIONS, NOT IDEAS
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Questions for readers: What happens at your organization when a substantial amount of effort has been invested in an idea that turns out to provide little value to users or the organization, or even to make things worse? Have the expected customer outcomes for the features you are working on been quantified? Do you have a way to measure the actual
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