50 Things We’ve Learned About Building Successful Products
- If you’re going to pivot, make it big. Stewart Butterfield pivoted two video game companies into Flickr and Slack. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman says startup founders can pivot from failure to success, but only if they “slash and burn” the rest of their business. If it looks similar, go further.
Ian Vanagas • 50 Things We’ve Learned About Building Successful Products
“If you aren't excited about what you're working on, pivot. It's as simple as that. You'll achieve more if you're working on something that feels yours.”
Ian Vanagas • 50 Things We’ve Learned About Building Successful Products
Product experiments can be a lot “dumber” than you realize. For example, instead of building out a full feature, try a fake door test. This is where you add options or buttons with nothing behind them to check that people will click on them.
Ian Vanagas • 50 Things We’ve Learned About Building Successful Products
- Small teams (6 people or fewer) can build great products, but they need to be given autonomy to set their own goals, prioritize their roadmap, pick metrics, talk to users, and ship code fast.