How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
Lenny Rachitskylennysnewsletter.com
How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 72: Focus on building solutions to problems, rather than building new products or features.
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
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.
Nathan Baschez • Good Positioning Makes Everything Easier - Divinations - Every
As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success
Many entrepreneurs are understandably in a rush to get to the righthand side of the hockey-stick curve. They do this by trying to go fast on everything. But going fast on everything doesn’t necessarily make you go faster. Rather, it’s a recipe for getting lost faster, because it’s easy to lose focus and fall prey to the premature optimization trap.
Ash Maurya • Running Lean
Forcing yourself to have a “one feature in, one feature out” guideline will help you develop your product with a bias toward simplicity. While simplicity benefits your newest customers and the majority of your current customers, it also benefits your own process to grow your product and solve problems as they arise.