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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. Going global was difficult for Prowly, but after a year and a half, they found that their differentiating factor was catering to SMBs rather than enterprises. Hint: it starts with user feedback. What is Product-Market fit?

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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

As a result they've differentiated their product on the things that enterprise customers care about: customization, security, and scale (that's their Market Product Fit). As a result they've differentiated their product on “All In One” since thats what mid-market customers care about. Marketo Their market is the enterprise.

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BrowserStack’s Mark Rudden on hypergrowth in a global pandemic

Intercom, Inc.

If there’s anything we’ve learned when it comes to working in hypergrowth startups is that you’re not really supposed to have it all figured out on the first try. From selling bikes to software. I was the first sales hire for a company called Wrike, a product project management software company. Iterate, iterate, iterate.

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What is Customer Value Chain & How to Use It in Product Development

Userpilot

Value chain analysis matters most to startups who don’t have much initial data to work with. In addition to these fundamental reviews of value chain activities, there are other levers you can pull like: Learning from more customers through welcome surveys. Competitive advantage. What are value chain management and mapping?

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

The best candidates they have their pick of where to work and it’s really hard for small startup to compete. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive? Prior to joining Simprints, I’ve worked mostly at the intersection of education and code.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

I had wanted to be in tech because I’d done a bunch of coding undergrad and engineering undergrad, and as tech started to take off in the mid to late nineties, I knew that I wanted to be in the Bay Area, in Silicon Valley. And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup. And I met my husband, Eric, out here.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.