Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year. Why Listen to This Episode?

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 13, 2025

After decades of working with over 300 startups in the earliest stages, they discovered that most startups fail not because they can’t build, but because they build the wrong thing. The very beginning of a startup is your highest-leverage moment, and most teams waste months or years by skipping a few critical early questions.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

We’re tasked with achieving product-market fit and driving growth, but we have no direct control over the people who build, market, and support it. Most new products never find their product-market fit. Understanding the product metrics Let’s have two products – A and B.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs Attio —The powerful, flexible CRM for fast-growing startups OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster Nabeel Qureshi is an entrepreneur, writer, researcher, and visiting scholar of AI policy at the Mercatus (..)

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

There’s one other important element to mention, because even though I think that many founders and product managers don’t put enough stock in buyer and customer feedback, there is an opposite problem that can happen, particularly in the early stages of a company or product. But then when do you move on?

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Productside

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Did you know that over 90% of startups fail, and a significant portion of failures stem from poor product-market fit?

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Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

TALK TO US Develop a strategic PoC that can drive your AI vision forward Get started today Modus Create > Insights > Blog Posted in Product Share this Jill Antweiler Jill Antweiler has over 20 years of experience wearing many hats, helping companies build amazing products.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Analyze product analytics and behavioral trends to identify patterns. Use structured insights to eliminate guesswork and improve product-market fit. Example: Google Glass failed due to lack of market demand. Example: Many startups fail after overpromising features without assessing development complexity.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Written by three product managers from top Silicon Valley tech companies, it simplifies complex concepts on the evolution of tech products, company growth, expansion, transformation, acquisitions, and more, with fantastic casestudies! A must-read for those in tech, startups, or product management!

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

Along the way, he helped Square scale from a late-stage pre-IPO startup to $3.6 billion in annual gross profit, expand globally, and build out a full suite of products across payments, banking, and SaaS. Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 25, 2025

Founders focus on product-market fit, customer acquisition, and engineering scale long before they turn serious attention to monetization. By treating pricing as a core competency early, you’ll avoid painful repositioning later, and capture more of the value your product already creates. Get ahead of them early.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 6, 2025

Brought to you by: • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Airtable ProductCentral —Launch to new heights with a unified system for product development • Sinch —Build messaging, email, and calling into your product — Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Value Proposition Canvas Value Proposition Canvas focuses specifically on the customer segments and value propositions to ensure product-market fit. It complements the BMC by providing a deeper dive into customer needs and how a company’s products address those needs. Value Proposition Canvas by Strategyzer.

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Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

Let's talk about your operating model Modus Create > Insights > Blog Posted in Product Share this Jill Antweiler Jill Antweiler has over 20 years of experience wearing many hats, helping companies build amazing products.

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AB Tasty

JULY 3, 2025

He previously held senior roles at Boohoo Group, Journey Further, Sky, and Visa, where he led teams across experimentation, analytics, and digital product. Jonny believes that smaller companies and startups—especially in their early, exploratory stages—stand to benefit the most from experimentation.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 13, 2025

At a startup, constraints often lead to creativity. As she put it: “There is no one natural owner for packaging, especially in companies that don’t have product marketing. So it falls to someone like me to pull together product, sales, marketing, and engineering. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Use Cases Ideal for product teams looking to increase user engagement. Pricing Free plan available for startups. LaunchNotes LaunchNotes is a comprehensive changelog tool tailored for product teams. Use Cases Best suited for large product teams needing a full-featured changelog tool with deep integrations.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Innovation Leaders For those preparing to: Help their organizations improve innovation processes Move into formal innovation leadership roles I offer the Certified Innovation Leader (CIL) Program, aligned with the Association of International Product Marketers and Managers (AIPMM).

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 18, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments Pragmatic Institute —Industry‑recognized product, marketing, and AI training and certifications Coda —The all-in-one collaborative workspace Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer of experiences and devices at Microsoft, (..)

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UX Planet

JUNE 1, 2025

The Evolution of the AARRR Framework The AARRR framework was initially conceived as a methodology for startups to organize and prioritize their growthefforts. Over time, it has evolved from a simple set of metrics into a comprehensive system for understanding user behavior at each stage of the product journey PostHog,2023.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

Consider these contrasting approaches: Weak: “I have 15 years of experience leading product teams and consistently exceeding targets.” ” Strong: “Your challenges with product-market fit remind me of a similar situation at [Company].

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 15, 2025

Previously, she was a senior director of product at Big Health and a senior product marketing manager at Dropbox. With extensive experience tackling challenging problems in regulated industries and high-stakes environments, Hilary emphasizes the importance of building resilience and adaptability within teams.

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Userpilot

JUNE 5, 2025

Userguiding – Best startup-friendly platform for automated onboarding. Can it support different onboarding processes across teams, products, or even platforms without needing constant dev help? Pricing and use case : Some tools are made for startups with limited resources. Starts at $300/month for 1,000 MAUs.

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

When we launched Zomato (then FoodieBay), I ended up putting together a basic version of the product, and we hired a student from IIT as an intern (Gunjan, now our CTO), to work on the first version of the product. To my mind, a tech startup should try to avoid outsourcing the first version of their product.

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Arkenea

JUNE 28, 2025

Step #4- Set the metrics and KPI Every business has different goals and needs to track different metrics but defining them beforehand gives you measurability which is essential to track the success achieved and to get to product market fit quickly. Get in touch with us today for a free consultation on your project.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

They are a great fit for the positions above and for your company, especially when the position is connected to Product-Led Growth. Som Nath [Image] Candidates short profile Som has over 6 years of experience in the tech industry, particularly in 0-to-1 startup environments.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 22, 2025

Data flywheels beat everything: For AI startups to compete with giants, you need proprietary data that improves through usage. Managing-up formula: “Say you’re gonna do the thing, say you’re doing the thing, say you did the thing.” Windsurf succeeded by tracking which code suggestions users accept and reject.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Speakers: April Dunford – Positioning expert and author of Obviously Awesome Sean Ellis – The OG Growth Hacker, inventor of the North Star Metric, High Tempo Testing and the “Sean Ellis Test” of product/market fit. 7th November, London, UK. 7th November, London, UK.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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. So where do they start?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

touches on what startups should and shouldn’t do when striving for product-market fit. Perhaps that’s why Enzo Avigo, CEO of June , reportedly recommends several “dos” and “don’ts” on LinkedIn on how startups can navigate their journey towards product-market fit. CEO of June.so Slow delivery. Limited impact.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

In this article, you’ll learn how to: Understand the role of product marketing. Start creating your product marketing plan. Create alignment between product and marketing. Walk into any product-first company and you’ll notice the common misconception that “marketing” is a dirty word.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2020

The term product/market fit was popularised by the lean startup movement a few years ago and tends to be something we glibly trot out when referring to a runaway success or a miserable product failure. And what is the product manager’s role in maintaining [.]. But what does it mean? How do we get to it?

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brikker (anonymized), a children’s toy manufacturing startup, was like a hamster on a wheel. Their primary product, these adorable little building blocks, had gained some traction but had yet to achieve the explosive growth they’d anticipated. In discussions about their marketing strategy, product quality, etc.,

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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.

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