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The Secrets to Scaling and Growth in Uncertain Times with monday.com Co-Founder and Co-CEO Eran Zinman

SaaStr

But because people convert by themselves, it creates a healthy product market fit. If you can start with a true self-service motion, your product will be better. Picking Your Core Verticals and Selling Outside of “Tech” 70% of Monday’s customers are non-tech — real estate, banking, construction, and even churches.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. What does this mean for product design and product management? the night before it was to IPO). So that was really the insight.

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. I was just talking with Tracy about how when we make offers to people, in our offer documents we list out our cash balance in our bank account. We ended up so totally nailing product market fit because we were laser focused on the customer.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Fmr. CEO of Host Analytics and CEO of Namely — Jun 14, 2019

SaaStr

If it doesn’t prove brilliant, if there is a bust, they sure would love to have that other 20 million in the bank and the incremental dilution of 12x is so small. You can also find growth with the combination of WePay and Chase, which means payments you can bank on. Harry Stebbings: Thank you Justin. That’s WePay.com/Harry.

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How This Business Went From Losing $20,000 to Earning $1 Million in Just Two Years

Buffer Resources

She spent the next six months constructing course content, without the slightest clue about what she was doing, assuming that customers would sign up eagerly. While I was definitely scrappy in the early days while we were figuring out product-market fit, I haven’t taken that approach since. I was out of ideas.

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Intercom on Product: Speeding back up when momentum drops

Intercom, Inc.

Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. If you have any kind of good product-market fit, you will get copied, and once you get copied, there’s no reason to pick you over other companies.

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“5 Dos and Dont’s Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days” Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

First of all, when you just started your company, that product market feed is literally critical. So it’s extreme and those that, that, those things are set in the early days through the product market feeds. It could be product market feed, it could be something else. Success always comes from people.