How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
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How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
Understand your audience. You must know who, precisely, you are building for. Understanding this early on in your company life cycle can be especially powerful, as it allows you to prioritize acquisition efforts. The hope is to build an early user base that will drive you toward your end goal.
Mario Gabriele • The Wisdom List: Leif Abraham
The Growth Equation: How Early Stage Startups Can Build a Powerful Engine for Growth
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Nikita Bier
instagram.comYour top priority is to build a core set of features that gets used regularly and successfully, even by a small group of initial users. Without that, you don’t have a solid enough foundation for growth.
Alistair Croll • Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Lean (O'Reilly))
Growing without product-market fit robs you of agility. Agility allows you to iterate. If you can’t iterate fast enough, you won’t get to product-market fit.Here is my suggestion to founders of tech-enabled services: don’t grow until you achieve product-market fit. Get a few customers in the door to start, then move any further demand to a waitlist... See more
Tim Dingman • False Positives and Service-Market Fit
All else equal, you should pick the position that makes it easier to grow, even if you have to de-emphasize something that you assumed was “core” to do it. It’s much easier to introduce a new idea once you already have a large existing audience.