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False Positives and Service-Market Fit
Product-market fit works in both directions. The perspective of the builder is always toward what they can do to change their product, what features and functionality to add. But with a long enough lens on successful and failed technology launches, you see that things like market context really matters. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t see as many ideas t... See more
Colossus • A Q&A with Eugene Wei: The Timeline is Evolving
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Stop thinking of product-market fit as a yes or no question—but instead as a process of finding fit with more segments of the market.
Lenny Rachitsky • A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B
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Investors advising early-stage teams should avoid pushing for growth ahead of product/market fit. As an industry, we all know that this ends in disaster, yet the pressure for premature growth is still all too common. Startups need time and space to find their fit and launch the right way.
First Round Review • How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit
I see so many companies find an initial beachhead of customers, think they have product/market fit, and then find their growth stalling. It's never about just one thing. But it's often because not enough attention was paid to market fit. As
Martina Lauchengco • Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Product teams overvalue hitting home runs vs hitting 100 singles back to back. This leads them to take bigger swings by going after bigger markets of new users. They get bogged down by trying to establish product-market fit for a new set of users and never fulfill the potential of their current product-market fit.
Bangaly Kaba • The Adjacent User Theory
Don’t confuse people rooting for you with market signal
On some level, all founders suffer from “happy ears”—the chronic confirmation bias pervading conversations with customers, partners, team members, and investors. We tend to have irrational levels of confidence anyway, but that gets compounded when we mistake support for market signal. Most com... See more
On some level, all founders suffer from “happy ears”—the chronic confirmation bias pervading conversations with customers, partners, team members, and investors. We tend to have irrational levels of confidence anyway, but that gets compounded when we mistake support for market signal. Most com... See more
Jake Fuentes • Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it
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