Finding Language/Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds
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Finding Language/Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds
The easiest way to do this is to listen to how your existing customers describe your product. It often amazes me how rarely founders really understand what they’ve built. They’ll have many rather mechanistic assumptions about who will use their product and where the value comes from.
Andy Budd • The Growth Equation: How Early Stage Startups Can Build a Powerful Engine for Growth
Often, you’re too close to your product to realize that the market doesn’t think about it the way you do.
April Dunford • Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It
Drive Growth by Picking the Right Lane — A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups
Dan Hockenmaierreview.firstround.com
I’ve observed, both as a founder and in our conversations with startups, that finding product market fit is frustratingly vague: Everyone tells you you need it, but offer only hazy generalities on how to get there. Most guidance boils down to “listen to your users.” Good advice, but it still leaves open the question of how to get those critical fir... See more