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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.
More innovations and startups fail from a lack of customers than a failure of the product or technology. Too many organisations still waste their time inventing solutions for non-existent customer needs!
Explore key frameworks and real-world insights to navigate and calculate corporate innovation ROI effectively.
One pattern that holds companies back from nailing their positioning is having an overly pessimistic product thinking. This is where the team has decided that their product is an undifferentiated loser despite all evidence to the contrary.
The market itself is the result of what has happened.If you're a product manager and you've performed market research analysis, you will realise theres no one-size-fits-all approach.
Everyone knows you cant build a startup without proper validation. But validation is not the best word to describe what you really need to do and which results you can expect from it. Here is why, and what you need to do instead.
A pivot is not a magic trickits a calculated move based on real traction.
AI is a double-edged sword. On one hand, teams can move faster, validate ideas with precision, and make data-driven decisions.On the other hand, AI can reinforce biases and stifle creativity. For VPs of Innovation, the stakes are clear: adopt AI thoughtfully or risk mediocrity or even outright failure.
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
Three-time founder Jessica McKellar tells the inside story of how she and her co-founders took a big swing with Pilot to optimize for an outsized outcome and shares her top three lessons on finding product-market fit.
Today's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is often about building a better version of an idea, not validating a novel one. It’s not good enough to be first with an idea. You have to out-execute from day 1.
Product-Market Fit Isnt a Black Box A New Framework to Help B2B Founders Find It, Faster
Reaching product-market fit, or any product success, requires a lot of trial and error, but that alone isnt enough. Success requires that you navigate your journey smartly. So never stop trying, but make sure you do it right.
A list of the biggest lessons learned from a year of showcasing founders and their journeys.
Why founders benefit from starting new companies during a recession
We're now witnessing something unprecedented: established products with seemingly strong product market fit experiencing sudden collapses in their core growth models.
In this article, Simon Schreiber explores how focusing on simplification and removing unnecessary features can drive product-led growth.
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.
Talk to customers, but don't ask what they'd pay. Keep it simple and understand how they buy.
On how to move faster and stop throwing away your product roadmaps
Some neglect the research process entirely in the early days, instead waiting until they’ve spun up an MVP for folks to test out. Others do start talking to potential customers when the idea is still squishy and moldable, but without processes and structure in place to ensure this is time well spent.
Regulating Big Tech will be a crucial part of leveling the playing field and ensuring that the basic duties of a democracy can be fulfilled. But another battle may prove even more difficult and contentious.
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
Theres never been a better time to act on your big idea. And this manifesto will show you how.
MVP is not only for startups applying an MVP Razor to every feature you build can save you time and resources. Lets explore examples.
Having a great product - one that customers really love, is important, but it is not enough to ensure the products success. There are other things that need to happen, and not all of them are in your hands or even in the companys hands. Here are a few pitfalls to avoid.
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.
More from Agile Insider
How B2B Product Management Drives Business Growth by Improving Customer Retention
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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