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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

Expressed needs are rightfully the basis of most iterative product developments. The second difficulty is that people often frame their needs as solutions. This examination helps to reveal the problem behind the solution. But pretty much nobody thought about it as a problem with a solution.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. They’ve developed numerous frameworks to apply across different industries, exercising and refining them hundreds of times across their investing history with companies like Facebook, Slack, and Carta.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. The report covers things in more detail at the end, but that’s the tldr; from an investment standpoint. Thanks, Andrew. But what to call it?

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. The report covers things in more detail at the end, but that’s the tldr; from an investment standpoint.