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Part 16: Building Product In The Leanest Way Possible (1/2)

 Building product in the leanest way possible So for our first product, we want to ask ourselves: What...

Mar 8 · 1 min read >

Part 15: Product Market Fit (More Examples)

 Product market fit Marc Andreessen, describes product market fit as Market Pull: when customers are banging down your...

Mar 8 · 1 min read >

Part 14: Product Market Fit

 Product market fit Here are some case studies on finding product market fit: Luminai is an automation platform...

Mar 8 · 1 min read >

Part 13: Testing Startups Ideas

 Testing startups ideas We came up with a bunch of ideas for ContactOut by studying 100s of companies,...

Mar 8 · 1 min read >

Part 12: Executing On Startups

 Executing on startups The startup process can be broken down as and we want to do this repeatedly...

Mar 8 · 1 min read >

Part 11: Grit And Determination

 Grit and determination Startups are hard. The most important factor in determining success is determination and not giving...

Mar 8 · 1 min read >

Part 10: Talking To Users

 Talking to users At ContactOut we spoke to perhaps more than 300 users. Y Combinator stresses this as...

Mar 8 · 1 min read >

Part 9: Study Competitor Job Openings and Interviewing at Competitors

 Study competitor job openings and interviewing at competitors So looking at Apollo’s jobs posts, you can see that...

Mar 8 · 55 sec read >

Zoom (3)

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Mar 8 · 1 min read >

Part 8: What Would You Ask In A Mentorship Session?

 In part 7 we covered reaching out to ex-employees and ex-founders of companies in your industry for mentorship....

Mar 8 · 55 sec read >