What It Feels Like When You've Found Product-Market Fit

First Round Capital’s PMF framework consists of four levels: nascent, developing, strong, extreme

1. Level one: Nascent product-market fit. Likely a pre-seed or seed-stage company. The goal in this stage is to find three to five customers with a problem worth solving, engage with them, deliver a solution, and validate that solution. [examples: Vanta, L

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Stop thinking of product-market fit as a yes or no question—but instead as a process of finding fit with more segments of the market.

Turns out no amount of fundraising, press, buzz, amazing employees, and/or cool tech guarantees you product market fit.