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

Mixpanel

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Customer Development Process 101- The Product Manager Guide

Userpilot

It was developed by Steve Blank and popularized by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup. The aim of the Customer Validation stage is to develop a differentiation strategy and the sales funnel and to close the first deals. The method gained a lot of recognition after the publication of The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

To assist with the practicalities of product management, I propose segmenting user needs in a way that differentiates between the expressed needs that people volunteer, the unexpressed needs they do not communicate, and the unrecognised and potential needs they cannot accurately describe themselves.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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How to Make Fewer Errors in Your Trial-And-Error Journey

The Product Coalition

Image by Andrina Smylie from Pixabay In 2005 I felt an urge to go back to school. I learned to think and speak in a new language that included things like market forces, differentiation, competitive advantage, barriers to entry, segmentation, and focus. On the other hand, there is the tech world, and lean startup, and agile.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

Part of my journey was 6 startups. My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. I observe, certainly in startups but also in really big companies and everything in between, most of the folks are incented to think about the current quarter. Not a differentiator.