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        <title>Products as donkey tails</title>
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          <![CDATA[I like this mental image of the &#8220;product in search of a solution&#8221; phenomenon we see so much of of these days: Your organization invents something no one else does. The rest of the process goes like this: I have this tail. I put it on the donkey. I spend money testing and fixing the [&#8230;]]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>I like <a href="http://johnnyholland.org/2012/05/most-products-are-pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey">this mental image</a> of the &#8220;product in search of a solution&#8221; phenomenon we see so much of of these days:</p>
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<p>Your organization invents something no one else does. The rest of the process goes like this: I have this tail. I put it on the donkey. I spend money testing and fixing the tail to get it closer to what the donkey wants it to do. I also spend money on marketing and sales people to convince the donkey I have what it needs.</p>
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<p>There is, of course, <a href="https://elezea.com/2012/01/product-discovery-before-design/">a better way</a>.</p>
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