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False Positives and Service-Market Fit
A great business idea isn’t enough. You need to quickly and cheaply test your assumptions to establish whether your product meets the needs of a market and fills this niche well enough for people to pay for it. The early days of a startup should involve constraint testing, tweaking and learning with the ultimate goal of discovering product/market f
... See moreWill Schmidt • The 30 Day Startup: How to Create a Successful Tech Startup in 6 Weeks for Less than $50K
Slowness in LaunchingCompanies of all sizes have a hard time getting software done. It's
intrinsic to the medium; software is always 85% done. It takes an
effort of will to push through this and get something released to
users.
[3]Startups make all kinds of excuses for delaying their launch. Most
are equivalent to the ones people use for procrastinating... See more
intrinsic to the medium; software is always 85% done. It takes an
effort of will to push through this and get something released to
users.
[3]Startups make all kinds of excuses for delaying their launch. Most
are equivalent to the ones people use for procrastinating... See more
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
Y Combinator has another strong belief: founding teams should never grow beyond six until there is true product-market fit. Product-market fit (PMF) is the milestone of having created a product that customers are finding so much value in that they are willing to both buy it (after their test phase) and recommend it. Metrics that show whether PMF ha
... See moreMatt Mochary • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
We advised earlier that you should not launch into a full-court press for large-scale customer acquisition until you’ve achieved product/market fit—i.e.,