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Comment on Why Product Market Fit is Overrated (and what to focus on instead) by Taylor Pearson

Thanks Michael!

Comment on Why Product Market Fit is Overrated (and what to focus on instead) by Erik

Great post mate.

Comment on Disintermediation Theory (And, 5 reasons people complain instead of seeking disintermediation) by Alasdair Plambeck

I’ve read The Dip 3 times and still managed to miss the idea of a local max…glad you pointed that out!

Comment on Disintermediation Theory (And, 5 reasons people complain instead of seeking disintermediation) by Clarity Webworks

Just a heads up that this doesn’t seem to come from J. Krishnamurti actually: “Desire is a contract we make with ourselves to be unhappy until we get what we want.”

Comment on Why Product Market Fit is Overrated (and what to focus on instead) by David Petersen

Solid essay indeed and solid comment.

Comment on Why Product Market Fit is Overrated (and what to focus on instead) by Marc Eglon

Totally agree with your insights, Taylor – there are so many movie parts to the business that need to mesh together to make things work. I believe that we can get so much more from running MVP cycles than just testing the primary hypothesis. At first, when you’re looking for traction and whetever-whetever fit, you’re not just testing minimum viable PRODUCT.

You’re also testing everything else involved in the process – the people, ability to execute, understanding of the problem, processes et...

Comment on Why Product Market Fit is Overrated (and what to focus on instead) by lion

legit
the Rive brothers spent two years going to every green tech conference etc, gaining founder/market fit before finding their product/market fit in Solar City’s biz model – so it’s not necessarily static

in that vein, the process of founder/product fit seems lucrative. I could be stabbing in the dark at the meaning of the term but I’d say the conversion companies you mentioned capitalized on this for private physicians (activist hedge funds and the like also do this on a grander scale)

Comment on Why Product Market Fit is Overrated (and what to focus on instead) by Michael Petersen

Again, you’ve put into articulate text, what I’ve experienced with many ‘other venture ideas’. My primary business aligns with the Founder/Market fit and it works – the ventures I attempted because they had a cracker Product/Market Fit, did not. Thanks for helping get it straight in my head Taylor. Cheers MP

Comment on Why Product Market Fit is Overrated (and what to focus on instead) by Dan Norris

Love it mate and thanks for the mention!

Comment on Why Product Market Fit is Overrated (and what to focus on instead) by Taylor Pearson

Thanks for reading Jesse!