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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. While I understand this distinction, I believe that a company cannot reach real product-market fit without nailing down its GTM, and vice versa. Here is how it works.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

If you’re just dealing with tough market conditions, the situation is different but the conclusion is quite similar: When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works. What had changed?

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The Value Assessment Framework (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

For example, when companies say that they want to start selling to enterprises, everybody nods. But while both could be considered enterprises, companies with 1,000 to 10,000 employees usually have very different needs than those with 10,000 employees and up. Next week I’ll talk about how to address them.

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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

In the spirit of trying something new, I decided to take all of my 2018 essays and turn it into an ebook PDF that you can read at your own leisure. a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise. In this podcast, a16z partner Martin Casado and I talk about the intersection of enterprise sales and consumerized growth tactics.

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The Value Assessment Framework (Part 3)

The Product Coalition

And so, when we were answering RFIs and RFPs (long requirement documents that large enterprises request vendors to fully answer before they start testing their products) there was almost always a question asking whether or not we supported this capability. I wanted to be able to say yes.

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Product-Led Growth Is a Misleading Name

The Product Coalition

When you are product-led, the company had decided that it is going to grow by selling the same product to each customer. You are going to invest a ton of money in developing the right product for the market (hence the importance of product-market fit ), but once you have it, and you know how to sell it, you can scale exponentially.

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3 Creative Levels in Your Product Career

The Product Coalition

Level 3: Deciding What to Draw When I joined Twiggle — a seed stage startup — as the VP of Product, I thought I was extremely ready. Their domain was tightly related to eBay’s one, and their enterprise B2B model resembled what I did at Imperva. This required a whole new level of thinking and a deep understanding of product-market fit.