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Essential product management skills
How to work effectively with cross-functional teams
How to identify and prioritize customer needs
The goal of a pre-launch startup
Hold the problem you're solving tightly, hold the customer tightly, but hold the solutions you're building loosely.
- Launch quickly, even if it is imperfect.
- Get some initial customers. Get anyone using your product and see if they can get value out of the product.. You don't have to think about how you get everyone using it.
- Talk to your users after you've launched your MVP to get feedback.
- Iterate. Continue to improve on your solution until it actually solves a problem in most cases.
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Hacks for building an MVP
- Timebox your spec. Your spec is the list of things you need to build before you launch. If you want to launch in three weeks, then focus on the stuff you can build in three weeks.
- Write your spec. If you don't write things down, you may change them a...
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How to get your first users
Theoretically, if you decide to solve a problem you know someone has, you will speak to that person. If that person is you, it's even easier.
But if you are building a product for a mysterious set of users, you may have to question that.
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Build a lean MVP
- Build fast. Do it in a few weeks, not months. For a heavier MVP, such as building a rocket or biotech, your MVP can start with a simple website explaining what you do. This can help when you talk to people so that they have something to refer back to.
- Limited...
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Launching
Many founders see how big companies launch and then assume they have to launch in the same way. However, a launch simply means to start getting customers.
The only way you can know if your product solves their problem is to put the thing in front of your customers. If it doesn't solve the p...
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Minimum viable product (MVP)
A minimum viable product is the simplest thing you can give to the very first set of users you want to target so that you can see if you can deliver any value to them.
It is helpful to talk to some users before you decide to build your MVP. It's more helpful if you are your...
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