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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 I treat creative copy like a product—using data

Mixpanel

Keyword research answers an important question: What words do people use to describe the pain point your product solves—at scale? It can be incredibly insightful for early-stage companies to establish their positioning and product-market fit. From 2015-17, Plaid was a modern API for banking data for developers.

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The Product Market Fit Engine | Rahul Vohra, CEO, Superhuman | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

2015 – Launch as JustGiving Crowdfunding. But we’d also realised that the Yimby positioning wasn’t reflected in the use of the product. We were communicating a message about community empowerment and location-based funding, but our users just wanted to raise money for a friend. JustGiving Crowdfunding homepage, 2015.

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The Importance of Listening to Your Customers by David Cancel

Mind the Product

billion, and in 2015 sales were $5.2 Why would you build a product in an internet-connected world and not lean into the advantages of that ecosystem, he asks? He points out that with the rise of messaging software customers can easily give you one to one feedback in real time. Product marketing issues. No excuses.

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Product Model, Service Models, and Investor Valuations

Mironov Consulting

 (See this 2015 talk and supporting blog series. What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A  How do we manage product/market risk, since most new offerings fail?  Can  How does that change our C-level decision-making, staffing, go-to-market processes, messaging?  Are

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Your algorithms WILL be wrong. Is your product ready?

The Product Coalition

It even sent me a message explaining how much money I saved with this feature. Take for example Google photos’ infamous Gorilla incident from 2015. Pay special attention to it if your product includes machine learning algorithms, since resolving bugs there can take much longer than in other areas. Is your product ready?