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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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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. About 50 percent of my time was spent communicating with potential users, whether that was asking them to try Intercom over email, meeting them at conferences, responding to them in blog comments or talking to them on Hacker News. Absolutely not.

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The Product Marketing Manager: How They Bring Value to The Market

The Product Coalition

A Product Marketing Manager (PMM), is one of the least understood roles in the technology industry. Strategy On the strategic side, this means finding out what is unique within a market about a company’s offering, and steering the company and/or its product to position itself in the place that will lead to success.

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Product Marketing Resources: Everything You Need To Know in 2022

Userpilot

Trying to find the best product marketing resources for 2022? As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to the market, promoting it, and selling it to customers.

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How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups

Product Talk

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. So where do they start?

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Product Conferences In 2021 You Can’t-Miss

Userpilot

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? We’ve collected the best events for product folks that you can attend online or in-person. February Product Conferences. Product World. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance. Table of contents.

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The Startup Brand Fallacy: Why brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups

Andrew Chen

Brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups. Startups build a great brand by being successful, finding product market fit and scaling traction, etc. Early startups should opt out of all of this. Brand marketing is great, but it should be layered on later. But it’s not a real lever.