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The best resources on Product-Market Fit.
Dont go out and build actual stuff.
Why it happens, and how to break out of it
If your startup failed, its because it didnt solve a tier 1 problem for a large enough audienceheres how to never make that mistake again.
A product needs to do two things well: create value capture value.
Should you focus on marketing and growing your startup? Or should you instead focus on building a world-class startup product?
Looking for good product pricing strategies? Learn how to price a product in seven simple steps.
Product-User Fit: The extent to which youve built the right product for the right user.
Let’s get you kickstarted on product-led growth.
Everyones a maker –were seeing a wave of powerful no code tools enter the market.
Managing product development correctly is incredibly important in the earliest days and can make or break your company.
Great article on what will make or break any startup, year one –and how to survive
3 Steps to Better Product Decisions
A framework to go from pain point to a viable solution
The cash is burning fast, and weve already wasted a big portion of our seed...
A product needs to do two things well: create value capture value.
Canvases often only explain the business model of companies AFTER they were successful. How do you capture the learning that got them there?
Startups are more likely to find product/market fit by narrowing their target demographic, understanding customer needs/benefit better, and building more focused differentiated products.
Here's how Product Hunt evolved from a 20-minute prototype to a full-fledged service
Amazons breakthrough happened because of a focus on failure. Redouble your effort to understand whats NOT working so you can succeed.
Which of these tests will actually tell us if we have the fabled Product Market Fit?
Don't reward certainty when the thing we're talking about is rife with uncertainty.
Listening to our customers and aggregating their feedback is our best tool for taking the pulse of a product.
An excerpt from the Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital
When you have minimal information on the value your product provides and your customers capacity to pay.
Solving pain points is not enough
How Buffer did it
The first step in any launch is building something worth talking about.
We are done with customer discovery IF we have a concrete hypothesis about customer pains and a value proposition we are ready to test for purchase intent.
Think People, Not Funnels
A very rare interview with Sean Ellis
Advice From the Founder of Superhuman on finding Product-Market Fit
If you use the MVP framework, youre still faced with a big challenge- what exactly constitutes a viable product?
The road to scale: How long does it usually take to go through all four stages and what type of investment fits every stage?
A guide to bootstrapping a sustainable business. It will make you familiar with how bootstrapped enterprises are created, ran, grown, and sold.
Whether you are a founder, product or growth leader, being able to recognize and measure product/market fit is a critical tool to make the best decisions on driving success of a company.
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Documenting your Product/Market Fit hypotheses
So you need a crowd to launch to. Heres the way Product Hunt got one.
There are many different conflicting definitions of Product Market Fit. Most are quite ambiguous, and make it difficult to understand when you have achieved it.
The act of deliberately defining how you are the best at something that a defined market cares a lot about.
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Sometimes you just need 1,000 true fans to get started.
Greater Goods v. Passable Products.
Product-Economic Fit is the ability for a product to achieve attractive economics at scale.
How to find product/market fit, and why it's so important that you do so.
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