From Product/Market Fit to Language/Market Fit: A New Brand Storytelling Framework
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From Product/Market Fit to Language/Market Fit: A New Brand Storytelling Framework
Put simply: to highlight the importance of storytelling in work, in life, in all things.A business without a clear story resembles a car without an engine. No matter how much you kick, scream, or turn its crankshaft over, it won’t go anywhere. It’s no more than a dead vehicle sitting (or a dead company walking, for that matter).Like near all things... See more
Tom White • Once Upon a Time
Product market fit is just narrative distillation for customers. It only makes sense that this same process is as crucial for investors and employees, too. And just as we have spent so many years reinforcing the primacy of founders focusing on product market fit—and the process of how companies converge on it—so too must founders take distilling th... See more
kwokchain.com • Narrative Distillation - Kwokchain
Most founders think they are great at building product and bad at marketing. When the reality is the story is not the story, the story is the product.
Sari Azout • A Moodboard for People Who Hate Self-Promotion
In contrast, the story-driven company is responsive to customers and prioritises having a clear sense of purpose and identity.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
I spend 90% of my time thinking about stories and narratives, and like so many other things, narrative formation is getting decentralized. This is my attempt to figure out what’s happening and where it’s heading.Crafting and telling stories is part of what makes humans humans. Stories let us coordinate across time and space. Stories are undeniably ... See more
Packy McCormick • Story Time
It’s increasingly clear to me that a consultant that can help shape the narrative of an organization can have real impact on everything from the brand’s position in culture to the way product teams prioritize and ship features.
In this age of audience first brands, smart leaders are realizing the power of writing and the power of creating an ongoing... See more
In this age of audience first brands, smart leaders are realizing the power of writing and the power of creating an ongoing... See more
Narrative Strategy
Put bluntly, the struggle that so many companies have to differentiate or communicate their true value to the outside world is not a business problem, it’s a biology problem. And just like a person struggling to put her emotions into words, we rely on metaphors, imagery and analogies in an attempt to communicate how we feel. Absent the proper langu
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