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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product. Now a big question emerges — how do you get the first people to use your product? It’s almost done.

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Product-market fit–and other innovation observations for product managers June 8, 2018

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Product-market fit case studies. Product-market fit is about finding an area where value is created for a group of customers – a market.

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

That stereotypical image of a room teeming with monitors and elaborate dashboards where all the decisions are made isn’t real, and it’s high time we move away from it. Unless you’re looking at the data to understand why your customers are using your products, avoid making decisions based on your expectations of their motivations.

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Branding: The Other Half of Your Go-To-Market Journey

Pragmatic Marketing

And that bad marketing or branding could sabotage the success of your products? Product/market fit defines the degree to which your product could be successful. Marc Andreessen famously claimed, “The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit.”

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All the Awesome Speakers for #mtpcon SF 2017

Mind the Product

He was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus.

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Should you disrupt or create a category? 5 lessons from Gainsight’s CMO Anthony Kennada

Intercom, Inc.

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Prospective customers have to be educated. This is episode six of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.

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Demystifying Product Management’s Role in Pricing Strategy

ProductPlan

When there’s no traditional cost of goods sold (COGS) to recoup, the pricing strategy for a SaaS product can go in a lot of different directions. Do you give the product away and try to monetize traffic and users through other channels? Should you offer bargain basement prices to capture as many users as possible?