Sitemap - 2024 - The Path to Product-Market Fit

Chihuahuas-to-wolves

Who doesn't need convincing?

The half-hour of power

Sales IS research

The top-down trap

Waves of demand

[Interview] Tabs: Building the System

How to Manage Your Time Before You've Found Product-Market Fit

Traction-biased

Goblin mode

Seeking causality

Funnels vs. factories

Start with "why not?"

There is no such thing as a sales call

Killing wishful thinking

When should I pivot?

"Nice to have" vs. "Need to have"

Demand =/= "people who want to buy your product"

how to analyze your sales calls to find PMF

Almost nothing matters

houston, we have a problem (with problems)

(un)learning sales

Infinity-to-one

The Product-Market Fit Score (v1)

When > What

Metrics don't matter

Milestones that matter on your $0-$1M ARR journey

Pivot Hell is avoidable

How do you frame demand?

[Interview] How ‘Jump’ learned by selling

Founder-led sales

Designing around demand

[Interview] Atomic's Path to 10 Customers

The two foundational models

How I'm approaching PMF for my new startup

A simple unfolding story

Fooled by scalability

Unfolding, part deux

VCs are structurally stupid

Startups unfold

Why your value prop sucks

If it's not simple, it fails

The case against experimentation

Let reality do the heavy lifting

How to "build something people want"

Production systems vs. demand-response systems

It's simpler & dumber than it seems

A founder's second swing

The bus you didn't see coming

Breaking the j-curve

Slow down to speed up

The simplest way to think about product-market fit

The five levels of product-market fit

My favorite team alignment workshop, ever

The secret to repeatability