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The Only Leading Metric to Measure Product-Market Fit and How to Use It

The Product Coalition

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. And you can always feel product/market fit when it is happening.

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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

In the field of UX research, Systems Thinking can bring many benefits to strategic planning, allowing for a broader and more integrated view of the user ecosystem. Feedback loops: a system’s outputs affect its inputs, creating loops. Understanding the various stakeholders involved in the ecosystem beyond the direct user.

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New Course: Finding Product/Market Fit

Sachin Rekhi

The hardest part of bringing a new product to market is always the elusive hunt for product/market fit. Marc Andreessen describes product/market fit as "being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market". So we did just that: hurried an MVP to market in a matter of months and got tons of early feedback from customers.

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In Search of a Better way to Measure Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Usual Benchmarks to Measure Product/Market Fit.

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How to break into Silicon Valley

Andrew Chen

This is advice I’ve been giving to people for years, and it’s shaped by my own experience — after all, I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and it completely changed my life. Why were there so many consumer successes in the Bay Area but not elsewhere? How does angel investing and VC work? And Burning Man people.

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Behind the Product: Why CNN+ Failed

280 Group

Since Netflix introduced streaming video on-demand (SVOD) back in 2007, the market has exploded. Sources of streaming content have proliferated, giving consumers a lot of choice and access to a lot of content. consumers use them, and the market is projected to reach over $932 billion by 2028. Nearly 80% of U.S.

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Mastering the Problem Space for Product/Market Fit by Dan Olsen

Mind the Product

The term Product/Market Fit was coined by Marc Andreesen back in 2007 and it’s been a key goal for any new product or startup ever since. In this talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Dan Olsen, the author of The Lean Product Playbook , tackles the key components of product/market fit and how to achieve it.