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There are several things IFTTT did poorly when compared to Zapier:

First, they did not target any particular audience. When you try to be all things to everyone, you end up being nothing to anyone.

Second, they did not follow the simple principle of show, don’t tell. Even in the simple image above, you can tell Zapier helps apps talk to one another.... See more

If you’re building a similar type of product, Ofstad’s advice is to keep the feedback loop extremely tight and loosen your expectations around what your MVP “should” look like. “We'd sit down with our customers to see what they were using the product for. With horizontal products, you build this very generic thing and the cool part is seeing how... See more

Three of the most common, and consistently publicly available, metrics to measure efficiency include:

How to go from siloed sales and marketing to full-funnel cross-functional teams that are focused on pipeline and revenue generation:

4. Think about pricing as positioning early on.

“We thought about pricing from the earliest days. Even during our alpha with our first pockets of users, we had a pricing page with a few different plans. It mostly described features we hadn't built yet, but we at least wanted to frame that this is a product we're going to charge for,” says Ofstad.

“W... See more