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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How 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.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 15, 2023

Former CEO of Picker explains mistakes made in pursuit of product-market fit. The LinkedIn post you’re about to read is a testimony of sorts, and while it wasn’t given under oath — the statements provided demonstrate how product people can present themselves when mistakes have been made.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Time goes by, runway decreases. Rosie is the best. ??

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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? For corporations, nearly 80% of new products fail each year for the exact same reason. So why are we still developing products no one wants? Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business?

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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).

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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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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.

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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. Market research Every product design cycle should start with a robust research phase.

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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

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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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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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

You either have a product market fit or you build fake metrics to get there (even unintentionally). NextBigWhat’s #Threadmill brings you curated Twitter threads on product, life and growth. Very few days I sleep w/o the macabre thought that startups that haven’t PMF-ed are like a candle in a wind tunnel.

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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

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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Userpilot

APRIL 17, 2024

Want to understand what customers think and how they behave in your product ? If so, you need to invest in the right customer insight tools. These tools are perfect for providing valuable customer insights to make product improvements and optimize your customer experience. Read on to learn more.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

You have to invest skillfully to test these assumptions. The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Reduce the Costs of Failure.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. If you look into the problem carefully, you’ll see that all the relevant reasons for failure : changing requirements, weak arrangement, insufficient investment and test activities? a skateboard.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2021

The best SaaS teams in the world are using one simple and proven process as a guiding light : customer research. Let me guide you through the brass tacks of the only, may I say, “growth hack” that can safely lead your product to success. Yet Growth Marketing and Product Growth is not where I started. reported ICP.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. It’s probably not surprising to hear that there is no silver bullet when it comes to market fit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Product-Led Growth practice lead, Dave Boyce describes the distinction between finding product-market fit (PMF) versus finding go-to-market fit (GTMF). By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Getting the product right and ready before launch is critical for digital product businesses.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. and actively engaging their customers to find that fit. But what happens once the fit is achieved? It’s also the right time to add a dedicated customer research leader. It’s a fair question.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 24, 2018

The term Product/Market Fit was coined by Marc Andreesen back in 2007 and it’s been a key goal for any new product or startup ever since. The Product/Market Fit Pyramid. Target Customer – who are we trying to create value for? Problem Space vs Solution Space.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love.

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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. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. In a particular market?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Enzo feels that in situations where speed to market can make a big difference, one must temporarily let go of notions of structured design processes and just get the thing done and get it out into the world in front of customers. Product teams, you don’t have time to do all the things you should. One solution: being scrappy.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

I’m going to take a wild guess and assume that you already understand the importance of mobile in-app feedback. 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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Andrew Chen

JUNE 21, 2018

Brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups. Startups build a great brand by being successful, finding product market fit and scaling traction, etc. Early startups should opt out of all of this. Brand marketing is great, but it should be layered on later. Raising money.

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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. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. In a particular market?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

User segment vs persona: what makes the two different from each other? So let’s dive deeper and see how you can create both to improve your product marketing efforts. A user segment is a distinct group of customers with specific shared needs, characteristics, or actions. What is a user segment?

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freshtrax

APRIL 11, 2019

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , 20% of startups fail within their first year, 50% fail by their fifth year, and 70% are done by year 10. With so many pressing matters at the forefront of an entrepreneur’s mind, there are many reasons why a startup may fail. Vested is a startup helping small businesses find new employees.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). But rather than focusing on optimizing for speed, the set of features is optimized for customer delight. So how do you create a minimum delightful product of your own?

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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. It can help you monitor the effectiveness of in-app marketing efforts.

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First Round Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

After more than a decade of running B2B growth teams at PayPal and investing at 500 Startups, Matt Lerner now spends his days helping early-stage startups with growth. He's seen firsthand how changes in a handful of words can yield jaw-dropping differences in conversion — and accelerate a startup's course to product/market fit.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Startups also have a silent killer. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. Note: everything I say here is true for mature product companies as well. The reason I’m talking here primarily about startups is that they are much more volatile than larger companies. And guess what?

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