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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Between day one and your first confrontations with those issues, particularly if you’ve raised any outside capital, you will have formed a board and stocked it with people you can really get to work on your behalf. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. The World will conclude this list for today.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. We are already invested in these companies; we can’t sell our stock.