prod-mkt-fit

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A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do it.

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How do you spot the wrong customer before they burn your roadmap? First Round Partner Meka Asonye digs into how now-massively successful startups cracked the code.

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I asked an 🍎 Apple Vision Pro designer turned solopreneur how he sells HW.

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Historically product market fit evolved gradually. But we are now seeing established products collapse overnight.

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Ready to nail product-market fit? We found expert advice for creating a product with widespread demand.

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We gathered the most surprising anecdotes from seasoned founders about when things clicked into place.

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There is such a thing as a free lunch

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A new framework to help B2B founders find PMF, faster.

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After interviewing dozens of founders, we pulled together the biggest lessons on finding PMF that stuck with us.

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This framework outlines three distinct archetypes of PMF which help you understand your product’s place in the market and determine how your company operates.

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GOAT co-founder and CEO Eddy Lu sits down with First Round Partner Todd Jackson to tell the story of how a decade of middling entrepreneurial ideas finally culminated in the $4B idea for a sneaker marketplace.

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Guillermo Rauch, raised in Buenos Aires and fascinated by computers since age 7, taught himself to code and moved to San Francisco at 18. His company, Vercel — the frontend cloud service behind open-source development framework Next.js — was recently valued at $2.5 billion.

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The founders of Pilot have started three times over, starting with Ksplice (sold to Oracle in 2011) and then Zulip (acquired by Dropbox in 2014).

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Methodologies for understanding and measuring marketplace liquidity

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In our "Paths to Product-Market Fit," Retool founder and CEO David Hsu sits down with First Round partner Todd Jackson to share how the internal tools company hypothesized, tested and iterated its way to 100 happy customers

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Todd Jackson has experience managing products at Google, Facebook and his own startup. Here's what he learned.

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Reflections on the 20th anniversary of a $100+ billion product

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Prioritized lists are essential for product managers, right? Yes, but be careful. Ken Norton illustrates why.

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In the Creative Founder, students are paired semi-randomly, and then spend a semester trying to get to product-market fit. I always start them with market selection. A market has three key elements…

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A overview on the basics behind how we quantify product-market fit at Tribe Capital. These are the underpinnings of our underwriting framework.