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A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses

Sachin Rekhi

However I've seen too many startups use the lean startup methodology as an excuse to fly by the seat of their pants and shun almost any structure to their approach to iterating, validating, and finding product/market fit. Here is what I typically capture when initially documenting a startup's product/market fit hypotheses: 1.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? Using data to drive outbound sales. This meant that when Jeanne wanted to get an outbound sales program off the ground, she had to get creative. We just were never going to get that headcount.

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The Right People in the Right Roles

The Product Bistro

Often, product managers are expected to wear multiple hats, in particular to play Product Owner for the Scrum team, to be the business owner or the true Product Management function, and to be the outbound marketing expert and wear the Product Marketing hat. It is time to set the team up for success.

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Built for You: Making of Series

Intercom, Inc.

For this virtual panel, we’ve gathered the team that made it happen: Thomas Creighton de Farias – Senior Product Education Producer. Alex Potrivaev – Senior Product Designer. Nicole Garrison – Product Marketing Manager. Wal McConnell – Senior Product Analyst. Nicole: I’m Nicole.

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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

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 Must-Read Book List for Building New Product Ventures

The Product Coalition

A framework for thinking about how to really engage your users and customers with your product. Takes the view that you need to build and test your traction channels in conjunction with building and testing your product fit. Product/market fit needs the product and market to fit. by Justin?—?Takes

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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

As the discussion in the CPO Bootcamp continued, another participant gave the example of a product manager in his team who is really good at some parts of the job but isn’t willing to take on additional responsibilities or dwell in new types of activities?—?although My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an