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Narrow your focus

  • Build a model of your customer. 
  • Focus on a specific and acute problem faced by your customer.
  • Build a single solution that solves this narrow problem incredibly well. 

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By studying the journeys of founders that have successfully navigated the path to the elusive product/market fit, we can learn much about how to chart our own path to startup success.

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