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Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

by SparksZilla on 5/21/19, 6:26 PM with 17 comments

  • by Jun8 on 5/21/19, 11:16 PM

    Wow, the two founders started awesome guides that I consulted in the past, from https://www.holloway.com/about?section=story:

    - Josh Levy: The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services (AWS) (https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/) and The Art of the Command Line (https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line)

    - Andy Sparks: Everything You Should Know About CRISPR—And Where to Learn More (https://medium.com/startup-grind/a-primer-on-crispr-and-how-...)

  • by modi15 on 5/22/19, 6:11 AM

    There is no such thing as a Product-Market Fit. The article is at best marginally useful in thinking about your startup and at worst will take you on a tangent of intellectual mastrubation which can be a completely misguide you on how to think about your startup.

    Startups exist in a complex ecosystem of competing forces. This ecosystem changes all the time. Your product and the market are only two of the multiple factors that could influence your startup. Even then, what constitutes your product and how you define your market will also change throughout the course of your startup.

    The ideas behind 'product-market' reduce this complexity into an intellectual exercise whose premise that product should fit market for success to happen is too simplistic and inaccurate. Assuming the product-market fit theory and extrapolating to corollary's and model's the kind this article portrays is great for an MBA classroom workshop but little else outside.

  • by Ozzie_osman on 5/21/19, 8:40 PM

    Excited to see this new form of content from Holloway!

    If you haven't seen some of their past content you should check out their (free) guide to Equity Compensation: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation

    Disclaimer: I'm working with Holloway on a future guide (to Technical Hiring and Recruiting).

  • by jfals82 on 5/31/19, 3:00 PM

    I'm getting a deceptive site warning from Chrome. Has the link been compromised?

  • by kine on 5/21/19, 7:57 PM

    This is phenomenal.