
Product Strategy Business Model - AVC

founders build something people want by following a sound product development strategy. They spend their time building new features based on what early users say they want. Then, when they think they are ready, they launch, take stabs at getting more users, only to become frustrated when customers don’t flock to them.
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Before the launch your primary goal is to find a valid product strategy—a strategy that results in a product that is beneficial, feasible, and economically viable.
Roman Pichler • Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
I have seen five main reasons why early startups fail: The problem the product aims to solve exists, but it isn’t big or painful enough for people to care (or pay to solve it). There are already pretty good solutions on the market, which the founder has missed (bad research) or discounted (hubris). The product doesn’t deliver enough value for custo
... See moreAndy Budd • The Growth Equation: How Early Stage Startups Can Build a Powerful Engine for Growth

