Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers
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Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers
you should keep a spreadsheet of ideas that can move your primary KPI and not to be too repetitive, but these tasks are almost always a variant of two things, right? One, talking to users and two, building product. Talking to users helps you with three things: it converts them into customers and revenue or helps you convert them into customers and ... See more
Adora Cheung • How to Prioritize Your Time : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
The prevailing dogma is that startups should ship and iterate as quickly as possible. Scott believes that’s often counterproductive. You need to “surprise and delight” your customers to create a product that grows organically. You can’t do that by simply meeting a user’s expectations; you must surpass them. Doing so takes time and polishing.
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Scott Belsky
If you've built more than one SaaS (mainly talking to product builders and studios), you will start to realize that the process of building these standard SaaS components will take you more time than building the core functionality in the beginning.
Dominic Monn • Products I'd Pay For, 2020 Edition – Dominic Monn
On the time YC cofounder @jesslivingston tore me a new one and changed the future org structure of Ramp:
At YC, we attended weekly office hours where every startup shared 1/ their weekly growth %, 2/ their biggest problem, and 3/ what they were doing to solve it.
That week in summer 2015 our startup Paribus had grown 20% w/w, our biggest problem ... See more