Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. But what product-market fit is, exactly? And how to achieve it?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The most important journey any new product goes through is finding product/market fit. Marc Andreessen, who popularized the term, defined it as: Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market. And even more die quietly without such fanfare.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. Idea validation is a process where a specific product, service, or business idea is tested in various ways to determine its viability. It can be used to validate new logos, slogans, marketing collateral, or branding.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

Have you been struggling to engage users and keep them coming back to your product? Or are you looking for ways to expand your user base to new demographics? In either case, using a product analytics tool to perform user needs analysis is the way to go. Userpilot can help you track in-app user activity and collect user feedback.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

I’m going to take a wild guess and assume that you already understand the importance of mobile in-app feedback tools. You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. Now, more than ever, your customers want to be heard.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth and user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • CommandBar —AI-powered user assistance for modern products and impatient users — Todd Jackson is a Partner at First Round Capital. Likely a pre-seed or seed-stage company.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This vertical SaaS functions as a feedback management solution, but it is a feedback management solution designed exclusively for other SaaS companies. Horizontal SaaS has been around considerably longer than Vertical SaaS, has a larger market, and is more difficult to saturate. Conducting market research is also essential.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Customizing my recruiting process Before we get into my portfolio criteria, here’s some brief context on our company and what’s important to us so you can see how you might customize your own hiring criteria. Our product is also consumer-facing (donors and recipients). I’m always curious to learn more from the larger community.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2023

Startup growth expert, Matt Lerner, talks about his million dollar lesson learned while characterizing consumers. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product people know that their greatest value lies in how well they understand consumers. He realized he was asking the wrong questions about consumers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Market research, for Product Managers, is an absolute necessity for success. Much of the time, you’ll find that your company has already outsourced your market research to a firm. But if you’re working on your own project or at a smaller startup, you might find this responsibility falling into your lap.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Did you know that 42% of startups fail because no one wants to buy their product? Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 15, 2023

Former CEO of Picker explains mistakes made in pursuit of product-market fit. 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. Maybe they needed more funding in order to have more time to find that fit.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 17, 2023

Here are 12 of the most common feedback collection methods. Collecting and making sense of customer feedback is a primary responsibility of product teams. Collecting product feedback is one of the main tasks of Product Managers. How can PMs collect that feedback? Automation ftw.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum.

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Userpilot

MAY 10, 2022

Can you measure product-market fit without a PMF survey? Collecting and analyzing customers’ feedback is the best way to understand how they feel about your product offering and if their demand level is enough to sustain your business long-term. Let’s see how to measure product-market fit using micro surveys.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s easy to answer whether you have a product/market fit: can the revenue your customers pay for your product sustain (or even grow) your business? But how can you know whether your market-fit is strong enough, or if you’re focusing on the right audience? Product Can you tell if your product is on the right track?

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Sachin Rekhi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Video: How Today's Product Builders Find Product/Market Fit. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Fareed Mosavat, Chief Development Officer at Reforge, for a discussion on how today's product builders find product/market fit.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One thing above all makes a successful startup: people who purchase and love the product. If you have that, it means you’ve managed to offer the market exactly what it needs or, in other words, achieved a product/market fit (PMF). But how come it’s so challenging to reach success as a startup?

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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?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Usual Benchmarks to Measure Product/Market Fit.

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Userpilot

MAY 13, 2024

Is your team struggling to determine the return on investment (ROI) of product marketing strategies? Or are you looking for ways to improve the performance of your marketing campaigns? In either case, marketing analytics tools can come to your rescue. That, in turn, helps optimize your marketing strategies and budget allocation.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

Kayvon treated sacred cows like a “built-in roadmap” of innovations worth testing. Successful decision-making often requires a blend of framework-guided analysis and intuitive judgment, where the needs of both the business and the customer are carefully considered. Copying can be done in good taste or poor taste.

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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. How does it meet customers’ needs? One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? What does the business do?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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.

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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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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?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What are the attributes of the framework?

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Usersnap

MAY 19, 2022

Think of product-market fit (PMF) as sailing: the product is the sail and demand is the wind. For the boat to work or to make your dreams come true, you need to build a sail (product) and find the wind to power it (or satisfy the needs of the market, and its potential customers). Imagine the following scenario: Eureka!

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. That said, while startup product managers are in demand, many prospective professionals still have difficulty figuring out how to embark on this career path. percent for a corporation.

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