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You're developing a groundbreaking product. How do you ensure it meets market demands?

What strategies do you use to ensure your product aligns with market needs? Join the conversation and spark new ideas.

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You're developing a groundbreaking product. How do you ensure it meets market demands?

What strategies do you use to ensure your product aligns with market needs? Join the conversation and spark new ideas.

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    Raed ALABBADY

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    Validate your groundbreaking product’s market fit by conducting at least 50+ customer interviews and testing a minimum viable prototype for usability. Compare your solution against 3 competitors to spot gaps like "faster compliance workflows." Launch a pilot with 5-15 beta users, tracking adoption metrics while A/B testing pricing models. Gather real-time feedback through in-app surveys and quarterly advisory sessions to guide development. Analyze search trends and community discussions to detect evolving needs.

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    Ammar S.
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    To ensure your groundbreaking product meets market demands, start by deeply understanding your target audience. Conduct market research, gather customer feedback, and analyze industry trends to identify real pain points. Build a minimum viable product (MVP) and test it with early adopters to validate your assumptions. Stay agile—iterate based on user feedback and data rather than personal preferences. Leverage competitive analysis to differentiate your product while ensuring it aligns with customer needs. Finally, focus on a seamless user experience, clear value proposition, and scalable business model. A product that evolves with real-world insights is far more likely to succeed.

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    Robert Dempster

    Consultant and Advisor | New Product Development | Process Improvement | Innovation | Biotech | Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals | Animal Health | GMP Manufacturing

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    Co-opt customers onto your NPD team or have a customer teams you can consult. These customers must represent all the potential market segments. Choose people who will be vocal and speak their mind. Avoid sycophants. Pilot early. Test market. Acknowledge that the more innovative your product potentially the slower the adoption and the more you will need to spend on customer education.

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    Maria Ghibu, FRM

    Chief Financial Officer | Non-Executive Director | talks about #finance #operations #acquisitions #fundraising #risk #governance #tech #AI #automation #robotics |

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    First thing, get a survey with some key questions to your target customers to validate some of the assumptions. Prepared to be surprised. Don’t be shy about asking for willingness to pay and how much. That way you validate the problem and can start talking about a solution. Develop the MVP; recruit some of the more enthusiastic survey responders for your alpha testing and co develop the solution. Give them great rates; don’t be shy about asking them to pay, as the product solves their problem. If it doesn’t, go back to the drawing board. Iterate iterate iterate until it does. Then think about how you can scale your sales. That’s a different problem you need to solve differently.

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    Zeyad Elshony

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    Bringing a groundbreaking product to market requires more than just innovation—it demands alignment with real industry needs. Here’s how to ensure market success: Market Research & Validation: Analyze trends, identify pain points, and validate demand through pilot studies. Customer-Centric Design: Engage industry professionals, test prototypes, and refine based on feedback. Agile Development & Compliance: Iterate continuously while ensuring regulatory and safety standards. Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate with industry leaders to boost credibility and adoption. For oil & gas, focus on efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Innovation is key, but market alignment drives success!

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    Shubham Singhmar

    Solar Tracker Specialist | MBA Operations (UPES) | BE Mechanical (CU) | 7+ Years Experience | Expertise from Design to Commissioning | Driving MW Projects with Precision & Innovation | 7 Published Patents

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    Conduct thorough market research, analyze user pain points, validate concepts through prototypes and A/B testing, integrate feedback loops, and apply agile development to iteratively align the product with real-world needs and performance expectations.

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    Ehsan G.

    Helping Businesses 10x Growth with AI ⚡ CEO @ Zaptron | AI Automation Expert | Building AI Bots That Close Sales & Book Meetings

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    We’re building Zaptron—a game-changing AI automation agency—and here’s the truth: You don’t “guess” product-market fit. You earn it. Before building anything fancy, we asked: • What are SMBs actually drowning in? • What would make them say, “Where has this been all my life?” Then we built fast, tested ugly, and refined ruthlessly. Every bot, every offer, every workflow was shaped by real convos, not wishful thinking. Groundbreaking products start with ground-level problems.

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    Antoine MARTIN FLOCCO🚀

    Senior Consultant @Capgemini Invent (frog) | Helping companies of the CAC40 to integrate Innovation and Digital Strategy | Marketing & Business Modelling 📊

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    First of all, if you are asking yourself this question, your product is not a groundbreaking invention yet. The idea worth millions is not a reality… This said, we can now try to understand a frame that could fit for every type of project. - Step 1 : PoC proof of concept. Before even developing anything use all the latest mockup tool to create a fake version of your idea, or even easier just create a landing page and test the idea. - Step 2 : cobuild your MVP - Step 3 : Beta testers + improvements from feedbacks - Step 4: build a product that is not the best version of your product yet but that answer to the needs of the market. You’re looking to validate the PMF (Product Market Fit) - if PMF = ✅ then you might say « groundbreaking »

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    Sara Webster

    Managing Director @ Think Bambu

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    It's about creating the most effective testing/feedback/optimisation loop. 1) make sure you gather feedback from your ICP, regularly and clearly 2) make regular updates based on the feedback 3) test the impact repeat until you have an MVP that is performing regularly against the feedback loop. The MVP is a starting point, not the final version so continue to work the loop once you launch too!

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    Hani Al-Zoubi

    Marketing Manager @ DARA HEALTH FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES | Digital Marketing

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    Understand your target audience through research, identify their needs, gather feedback during development, analyze market trends, and adapt the product accordingly.

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