May 14, 2019

Business plans are a waste of time Issue 21

• Business models
  15 Pre-Launch Growth Hacking Strategies For Startups

  Marketing strategies for the pre-launch phase.

• Product Discovery
  Critical Customer Touchpoints for a Successful Product Launch

  Core problems should have a higher priority for product managers than remote problems.

• Case study, Product-Market Fit, Growth
  Growing startups when the product sucks

  The cash is burning fast, and weve already wasted a big portion of our seed...

• Product Discovery, Roadmapping
  Opportunity Scorecard

  A Heuristics-based Scorecard For Opportunity Evaluation

• Product Discovery
  6 Guiding Principles for Effective Product Discovery

  Good discovery is continuous. The day we stop being curious about our customers is the day our competitors start catching up.

• Experimentation, Product Discovery
  When business plans are a waste of time

  The problem with business plans is that the expectation is to implement them.

• Product Discovery
  Organizations don't run out of good ideas-they overlookthem

  How good ideas get stopped in their tracks

• Product Discovery, Product-Market Fit
  A designers guide to product-market fit

  Greater Goods v. Passable Products.