What is a product? - One more thing
While AI makes it easy to create prototypes, these are often not fully functional products. A real product requires users, a market, and solves real problems.
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How a Fitted Product Category Learned to Sell Online - Retail Focus Magazine - Retail Design
For most of the last twenty years, tyres were held up as an example of a category that could not fully move online.
From 500 Conversations to Product-Market Fit with Asad Tirmizi - Predictable Revenue
Many startups chase product-market fit as if it’s a moment of discovery. But for deep-tech founders, the journey is often much longer.
Serval's Path to Product-Market Fit — Win Enterprise Buyers by Treating Them Like Consumers
Notes from an AI founder taking a swing at a hundred-billion-dollar incumbent.
📈Product Market Fit for Physical Products
I asked an 🍎 Apple Vision Pro designer turned solopreneur how he sells HW.
The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail - Commoncog
A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do it.
What changed? The answer is not customer pain, nor customer desire.
What changed was simply … default behaviour.
0-$5M: How to Identify Your ICP — Lessons from Vanta, Clay, Retool
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.
📈Product Market Fit for Physical Products
I asked an 🍎 Apple Vision Pro designer turned solopreneur how he sells HW.
Product Market Fit Collapse: The AI Tipping Point
Historically product market fit evolved gradually. But we are now seeing established products collapse overnight.
How to Measure Product-Market Fit
Ready to nail product-market fit? We found expert advice for creating a product with widespread demand.
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
There is such a thing as a free lunch
The 4 Levels of PMF
A new framework to help B2B founders find PMF, faster.
20 Lessons From 20 Different Paths to Product-Market Fit — Advice for Found
After interviewing dozens of founders, we pulled together the biggest lessons on finding PMF that stuck with us.
The Arc PMF Framework
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.
GOAT’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Fake Sneaker Sparked a $4B Idea
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.
Vercel’s Path to Product-Market Fit — From Open-Source Project to Billion-D
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.
Pilot’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Three-Peat Founders on Picking the Rig
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).
WTF is Marketplace Liquidity?
Methodologies for understanding and measuring marketplace liquidity
Retool’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons for Getting to 100 Happy Cust
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
What Does Product-Market Fit Feel Like?
https://bip.so/@TIL_/How-Segment-Found-PMF-bDaLg
Top Hacks from a PM Behind Two of Tech's Hottest Products
Todd Jackson has experience managing products at Google, Facebook and his own startup. Here's what he learned.
The Sharp Startup: When PayPal Found Product-Market Fit
Reflections on the 20th anniversary of a $100+ billion product
Babe Ruth and Feature Lists
Prioritized lists are essential for product managers, right? Yes, but be careful. Ken Norton illustrates why.
Picking a Market
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…
A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit - Tribe Capital
A overview on the basics behind how we quantify product-market fit at Tribe Capital. These are the underpinnings of our underwriting framework.
Non-Obvious Signs of Early Startup Traction — And How to Spot Them
We gathered the most surprising anecdotes from seasoned founders about when things clicked into place.