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“In general, hiring before you get product/market fit slows you down, and hiring after you get product market fit speeds you up.
Until you get product/market fit, you want to:
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If customers do not want to buy/use the product, it does not matter how many features it has or how flawless it is. The path to PMF is discovery-based and then the company must find a sustainable growth model and create a moat against competitor...
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Venture capitalists generally tend to invest in companies that already found their PMF. They let the founders do the heavy-lifting.
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Start with a hypothesis, test it, prove it, move on or further iterate on the hypothesis. After a series of build-measure-learn iterations, the process is more of an art than science. Startups should start with the product, then find the market:
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Once a company has achieved product market fit, it is extremely difficult to dislodge it, even with a better or less expensive product. Facebook was not the first social network either.
The target is not only product market fit, but also "product market scale".
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A mistake usually made is trying to scale the product before it became product market fit. Most start-ups need 2-3X more time to validate the market than expected. Early adopters is not the same with the market and the danger of early traction because of the revenue generated by early adopters i...
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Many founders think that users will immediately pay for their product, but in reality things are harder.
Ideally in the easiest stages of a product development process pull is happening organically (i.e., without any advertising spending).
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The three "legs" venture capital look for in a valueable business are
Entrepreneurs resonate with one of them more, depending on the situation.
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More iterations of a product are needed until it becomes market-fit. The most important aspect of a company is its market and then the team.
“If you address a market that really wants your product — if the dogs are eating the dog food — then you can screw up almost everything in the...
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Time spent building a business around the product alone is pointless. A great market means succes if both the team and the product are competent.
A marvelous product is useless in a terrible market and even if the team is great, they will get demoralized if customers do not show up.
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”The moment when a startup finally finds a widespread set of customers that resonate with its product.” Eric Ries
”You know you have fit if your product grows exponentially with no marketing. That is only possible if you have huge word of mouth. Word of mouth is onl...
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Markets and the...
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