Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 1, 2018
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. Absolutely not.
Andrew Chen
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. 99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product.
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TechEmpower - Product Management
JULY 31, 2023
When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation. Focus on building an MVP to gather startup metrics.
TechEmpower - Product Management
AUGUST 7, 2023
What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies? It might be.
Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora
Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. Creating an iterative process to identify Product Market Fit. What metrics you should track to measure product-market fit. At least 3,000 start-ups receive seed investment each year.
ProductPlan
JANUARY 21, 2021
In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. So, What is Market Validation? What is market validation?
Product Talk
APRIL 20, 2022
“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.
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