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What Does Product-Market Fit Feel Like?

Predictable Revenue

Using pirate metrics to know when you’ve reached product-market-fit. The post What Does Product-Market Fit Feel Like? These five key metrics can help you determine where you are on your journey and how to course correct if needed. appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Go To Market Fit vs. Product Market Fit

Predictable Revenue

Ted Blosser joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss the difference between go to market and product market fit, and advice for each stage of the GTM journey. The post Go To Market Fit vs. Product Market Fit appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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When You Fall Out of Product-Market Fit

SaaStr

I’ve been investing just long enough now to see start-ups fall out of product-market fit. But I didn’t get that apps with happy customers, and some real traction, could fall out of product-market fit. You fall out of product-market fit. You didn’t add new marketing channels.

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Dear SaaStr: What Were The First Five Hires You Made After Product-Market Fit?

SaaStr

Q: Dear SaaStr: What Were The First Five Hires You Made After Product-Market Fit? My first 5 hires at Adobe Sign / EchoSign, beyond the core founding+ team, once we had paying customers and first, if early, product-marketing fit: #1: Full-time sales rep at $8k-ish MRR. I Should have hired two. Perhaps we should have.).

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How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

To accomplish this, product teams must regularly evaluate specific metrics that will yield the most insight. These metrics allow your team to understand the product's progression and how customer feedback will inform it. Leveraging product data to assess true business value and make informed decisions.

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5 Signs You Need to Hire a PMM (Yesterday) with Brex VP Product Marketing Emi Hofmeister (Video)

SaaStr

The success of any company depends on its ability to consistently deliver commercially successful products to the market. Product marketing can be difficult, and managing product launches and rollouts can be complex. You found product-market fit You’ve found product-market fit, and you’re scaling.

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Finding Product/Market Fit with Network Effects

Casey Accidental

I have written a lot about product/market fit in the past. Whether you are a founder, product or growth leader, being able to recognize and measure product/market fit is a critical tool to make the best decisions on driving success of a company. Cross-Side Network Effects (Marketplaces and Platforms).

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. Creating an iterative process to identify Product Market Fit.

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

There is a big problem with the term "product market fit." Launching successful products requires a rare combination of market understanding, iterative development, and a lot of luck. Our role as Product Managers is to eliminate confusion, not add to it. All of them are useless because they are not actionable.

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Scaling Your Startup and Getting Funded: Key Lessons from Seasoned Pros

Speaker: Brian Chang, Managing Director of Warburg Pincus & Scott Schwan, Chief Product Officer of A-LIGN

Scaling your SaaS business to the growth stage requires a strong product/market-fit, an optimized marketing funnel with repeatable sales processes, and a strategy for customer retention. In this webinar, you'll learn how to: Bridge the gap between product-market fit and go-to-market fit.

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Why the Product Message Should Come From Product Management

Speaker: Jordan Bergtraum, Head of Product at Equip ID & Consultant

Features and benefits may be part of the overall product marketing plan, but they are NOT the basis for a compelling “Product Message”. Product Managers may feel the “message” should be developed by the Product Marketing function, but I disagree.

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Power of the Platform: A PM's Path to a Winning Product Experience

Speaker: Marcus Andrews - Director of Product Marketing & Keren Wexler - Sr. Director of Product

Leveraging a single platform that combines product analytics, in-app guides, and feedback management solutions can be the most effective way to deliver digital experiences users love. Marcus Andrews, Director of Product Marketing, and Keren Wexler, Sr.

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4 Competencies of a Successful Sales Team

Speaker: Collin Stewart, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue

After identifying that you have a great product that the market needs, the next step is to determine if you have the proper messaging, if you are using the correct channels, and if you have the most effective tactics in place. Sales effectiveness = Product Market Fit*(Messaging + Channels + Tactics).

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

Lean A3, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) and the Build-Measure-Learn or Think-Make-Check loop (to name a few loops) are all learning models informed by the notion that experimentation is the fastest (and most proven) route to product-market fit and achieving sustainable organic growth.