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A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses

Sachin Rekhi

The process I've used involves documenting your initial product/market fit hypotheses, systematically validating each of the most uncertain hypotheses, and continually iterating on and updating those hypotheses as your team learns through customer validation, MVP launches, and future product iterations. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

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Goals vs objectives and why you got it wrong

The Product Coalition

You might use goals in your yearly and quarterly company strategy, your positioning, mission statement, company culture guide, financial projections, and other crucial business documents and initiatives. What’s the key performance indicator (KPI) that you’re going to track? M easurable?—?Make A ttainable?—?Objectives

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Part One: Key Elements to Become a Healthy Product-Led Organization

Bain Public

High-Level Strategic Baseline A high-level strategic baseline is a frequently revised document discovered collectively with leadership that covers the key foundational elements to steer growth, innovation and help stay abreast of changes in the market, industry, customers and competitors. Let’s dive deeper! Product team: Roadmap process (e.g.

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How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team

Gainsight

And when I was trying to figure this out, I had no idea when I was a CO, I hacked it and I looked at every public company document and I figured out that on average, and I talked to everyone I knew, on overage when people were at scale they were budgeting about $2 million per CSM. A million things going on outbound-driven, rapidly changing.