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Tech proposes, Market disposes

The Product Coalition

As the founder of a young startup in times of high economic uncertainty, I have found myself thinking again about what makes a successful product, and what makes them fail. All of these products had a huge Total Addressable Market (TAM), and were clearly Feasible, but failed to differentiate themselves in any meaningful way.

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Understanding Product-Market Fit: A Guide for New Product Managers

The Product Coalition

But one of the major concepts you absolutely need to get your head around is Product-Market Fit. If you don’t do your research, and understand how your product fits into the market (see what we did there?) What Exactly is Product-Market Fit? Product-Market Fit, in simple terms, is whether or not your product is needed.

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

The dating platform “YouTube” rebranded as a video website and sold in 2006 to Google for USD 1.6 Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. The decision to pivot in 2006 came at the right time and allowed the team to fully focus on the Twitter product and all of its 5,000 users at the time.

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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

By Mary Moore, copywriter at Shakuro Branding holds the promise of propelling your venture to new heights, capturing hearts, and securing your place in the market. For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous. Time pressure: The urgency to bring a product to market leads to shortcuts.

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507: Navigating the second product problem – with Greg Coticchia

Product Innovation Educators

This move demonstrates the importance of innovation and risk-taking in maintaining market leadership. Netflix’s Pivot from DVD Rentals to Streaming This example showcases the value of anticipating market changes and adapting business models accordingly. His book, Start Your Startup Right , is available on Amazon.

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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. While Boz celebrates startup culture, he also acknowledges its challenges.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too.