product-market fit
also referred to as: product market fit
17 statements across 14 episodes · 7 bullish · 5 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jul 24, 2016 by Amit Kothari · across every show →
Everything said about product-market fit, oldest first
Jul 24, 2016 positive
Kothari: Selling professional services is a valid way to find product-market fit
“And more importantly, it helps with product market fit. Because if someone's willing to pay you for something, That tells you they're serious. Yeah. Yep. And even, even if it's not recurring, it's, you, you're getting something that other people are not, you k…”
Apr 13, 2018 positive
Sep 4, 2018 negative
Sep 18, 2018 positive
Rusenko: Renewal rates are the key indicator of product-market fit
“If you have a product that doesn't have product market fit, you're going to see really low renewal rates. If you have a product that has really great product market fit, you're going to see really high renewal rates. And I think that that, that, that is a key …”
Jan 24, 2022
Jan 27, 2022 negative
Danilo: Pursuing enterprise customers early slows down product-market fit
“We did it, you know, exactly the other way where we started with fortune to 500 accounts, which had its pros namely that you can get really big contracts really quickly. I think like as, Like, you know, just get ready to get bogged down. And also it's like a l…”
Oct 24, 2022 positive
Quiguela: Startups must generate KPIs from day one before finding PMF
“We should generate KPIs since the first day. I know that It seems very early to generate KPIs when we are starting the company, when we don't reach, we haven't reached the product market fit yet, but that information will be very valuable in the future.”
Oct 24, 2022 positive
May 10, 2023 positive
Stancil: Finding product-market fit requires tracking features that distract users
“And so when you're, like, looking for product market fit, this is actually probably the best thing you can do, is pay attention to, like, what are your girls in the red dress, ah, that everybody's actually distracted by when you're trying to get them to build …”
May 10, 2023 negative
Stancil: Mode prematurely scaled ad spend before achieving product-market fit
“And basically this was us finding, thinking we'd found a product market fit, and we hadn't. That we thought we had found something that worked, we thought it was time to scale, to spend more money on ads, and all that kind of stuff, and it turns out kind of ob…”
May 10, 2023 neutral
Stancil: Startups only achieve product-market fit on a per-segment basis
“This is not something where it's like you are pre and post product market fit forever. You are pre and post product market fit for particular types of buyers, for particular products, for particular segments, and all those sorts of things.”
Jul 10, 2023 negative
Maruthavanan: Product-market fit is a fraud mental model and not actionable
“Product market fit. It's not even a framework, it's just a phrase. Some people like to call it a mental model. And I think, you know, it is a fraud mental model. I have not found a single entrepreneur who could look at the definition of product market fit and …”
Jul 19, 2023 negative
Jul 24, 2023
Appel: SaaS growth targets evolve from PMF at Seed to profitability at Series C
“Seed, product market fit, series A, prove you can sell it, series B, prove you can expand and keep those customers, series C and beyond, make it repeatable, profitable, and predictable, and then a big milestone, take a capital efficient model, move it to adjac…”
Apr 23, 2024
May 30, 2024 neutral
Moore: Founders Underappreciate How Fast Markets Drift Away From Products
“Particularly in the markets that many of us operate in, and AI is a great paradigm to look at around this, the speed with which markets actually are moving as well is really, really underappreciated. So while you are pivoting your way to product market fit, do…”