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

Andrew Chen

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m Because technology differentiation is no longer a real factor today start ups, it turns out that most products are succeeding or failing due to core product/market fit followed by the distribution strategy.

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A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. And if so, what are the consequences for your product?

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Product Positioning: Overcoming Seven Obstacles to a Great Value Story

Product Management University

Here’s an example of product positioning at its finest. If you’re a car enthusiast, go read the marketing copy for your dream car. The product marketers do a masterful job of getting you to envision exactly how awesome you’d look and feel behind the wheel of that car. Context rules!

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TEI 264: How product managers can make better use of marketing – with Jill Soley

Product Innovation Educators

We often think product and marketing are very separate, but the first P is Product. Customer interaction with your product is critical to your business’s success. Product marketing specifically is connecting your product with your market and your market with your product.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

Julien, who previously directed business development and partnerships at Microsoft and is on the board of French media giant Le Monde, was perfectly poised for a conversation at the SaaStock conference in Dublin that ranged from the different missions within Facebook to why he’s betting big on chat. What’s your differentiator?

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

Because in the early stages of product-market fit, you’re still shipping stuff and you’re looking to hit this sort of, what I call a vein of value in your customers. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. But then, what are the next six months going to look like?”

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

Because in the early stages of product-market fit, you’re still shipping stuff and you’re looking to hit this sort of, what I call a vein of value in your customers. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. But then, what are the next six months going to look like?”

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