The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Did you know that 42% of startups fail because no one wants to buy their product? For corporations, nearly 80% of new products fail each year for the exact same reason. So why are we still developing products no one wants? Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In the end, a pre-product-market fit startup’s only job is to find product-market fit (PMF), and therefore to explore different solutions as smartly and efficiently as possible. A really great resource for customer development interviews is the book The Mom Test. This article lists these lessons.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

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". The experience of failing on Anywhere.FM

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy? it is the same as a car manufacture ally with software startup working on AI tech to develop autonomous eclectic car AI-based apps.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Everyones chasing the next AI feature or untapped market.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. The old-style Waterfall model was replaced with incremental and iterative development.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Time goes by, runway decreases. It’s full of examples. ??

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. What is Lean product management (Lean or LPM)?

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Example: Sarah is a support manager at a fast-growing startup. Watch our next webinar for expert insights on whats replacing SAFe, how AI is reshaping teams, and what lean enterprise product development looks like in 2025. Whats been your biggest challenge in refining product-market fit? Not a persona.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Sachin Rekhi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Video: How Today's Product Builders Find Product/Market Fit. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Fareed Mosavat, Chief Development Officer at Reforge, for a discussion on how today's product builders find product/market fit.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In my work with startups I noticed two common pitfalls?—?opposite Photo by Daniel Abbatt from Pexels The best startups I work with have truly embraced the lean startup methodology. Working with dozens of startups, I do see, however, companies that are implementing it wrong. Lean Startup is no different in that sense.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Enzo Avigo, CEO of June Read a copy of the LinkedIn post below to find out more: Early stage startups, your product execution speed is everything. Product teams, you don’t have time to do all the things you should. In pre Product/Market Fit this is even worse. In pre Product/Market Fit this is even worse.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . Product marketing looks different in every company, but one common trend is that many product marketing managers (PMMs) feel undervalued.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 15, 2023

Former CEO of Picker explains mistakes made in pursuit of product-market fit. The LinkedIn post you’re about to read is a testimony of sorts, and while it wasn’t given under oath — the statements provided demonstrate how product people can present themselves when mistakes have been made. of GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) x month.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Nabeel was also a founding employee and VP of business development at GoCardless, a leading European fintech unicorn. His work at Palantir ranged from accelerating the Covid-19 response to applying AI to drug discovery to optimizing aircraft manufacturing at Airbus.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

We asked some of the industry experts about how do they merge both the aspects and finalize the features of the product. Want to get your app development project off the ground? Arkenea is a trusted, app development firm with 13+ years of experience. Get in touch with us here for a free consultation on your project.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Listen to understand the basic definition of marketing, marketing roles that may have resources useful to product managers, and how product managers can make better use of marketing resources. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [0:38] Start with building relationships.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 13, 2025

The one thing startup accelerators don’t ensure is success of your startup. DropBox, AirBnB and Quora – all these companies went through a startup accelerator program. But applying for an accelerator program is a major decision for any startup; and there are some distinct pros and cons. 100-120K of funding.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 6, 2025

Brought to you by: • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Airtable ProductCentral —Launch to new heights with a unified system for product development • Sinch —Build messaging, email, and calling into your product — Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? Would you like to know how a product manager can use it to deliver products that customers love? The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s free, available to everyone, and if you can pull off a great launch, Product Hunt can change your startup’s growth trajectory. However, the little-known truth is that of the thousands of startup founders who try their hand at Product Hunt each week, very few see any impact.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information. Those risks can be fatal: Mark has found a 75% failure rate for both Series A and Series C startups (as he presented during his 2019 SaaStr talk.). I think that’s message-market fit.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 7, 2021

We need an OKR expert to learn more about this, and joining us is the woman who wrote the bestselling book, Radical Focus , that tackles the use of OKRs and startup culture with an eye to getting the right things done. She has designed products with LinkedIn, Zynga, Yahoo! A tool to help product managers accomplish more.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Product-Led Growth practice lead, Dave Boyce describes the distinction between finding product-market fit (PMF) versus finding go-to-market fit (GTMF). By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Getting the product right and ready before launch is critical for digital product businesses.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

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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