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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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New Course: Finding Product/Market Fit

Sachin Rekhi

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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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. Looking back, I didn’t see these activities as marketing with a capital M, but they absolutely were. Founding a startup is a lot like this. I didn’t have a perfectly mapped out startup marketing strategy.

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An Organic Farm Startup Onboarding Strategy

The Product Coalition

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. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. In the first meeting, I was assured that clarity on goal, strategy, the partnership was missing.

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Keeping the market in mind: What makes product marketing successful at Intercom?

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we believe the best products are built with the market in mind. 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. . More and more, I see startups hiring PMMs as their first marketer ”.

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Product-Market Fit Lessons Learned, as Stated by Enric Gabarró

The Product Coalition

Former CEO of Picker explains mistakes made in pursuit of product-market fit. This pursuit motivates companies to dream about breakthrough strategies. It’s about a company that seemed to have a great idea from the start, but then, as the story goes, they failed to achieve product-market fit.

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How Product-Market Fit Really Works (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey. How many is a few?