Giff Constable: Product Market Fit

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For full background, please check out Giff's post: http://giffconstable.com/2010/10/landmines-on-the-road-to-product-market-fit/ On Friday, I gave a 20-minute talk at a product design conference organized by Ty Ahmad-Taylor (CEO of FanFeedr) and Hard Candy Shell (the talk shared the same title as this post). I discussed mistakes and lessons from Aprizi’s journey. I don’t think it was videotaped, so I am going to take advantage of this flight to California to write down some of the salient points here (and include thumbnails of the slides). Longtime readers will recognize many of these statements.

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Landmines on the Road to PM-Fit

Giff Constable, CEO & Co-Founder of Aprizi

October 1, 2010

Product Development Insights

Who am I?

Trilogy EnviveIthority

Opus360Broadview Electric Sheep Co

Aprizi

Dec 2009Idea

Jan 2010Paper Test

Feb 2010Wizard-of-Oz Alpha

May 2010Beta 1.0

Sep 2010Beta 2.0

Liz Crawford CTO & Co-founder

Aprizi’s Path

6 Messages Today

(remember, focused on PRE product-market fit)

1. Focus on the Value Proposition

Our three weeks of idiocy

Really think about what you need to test

2. Qualitative not Quantitative

Surveys are best for objective data

Our beta Aha! moment

3. Focus Groups are Evil

4. Own customer development AND the UX

Our short-lived experiment

5. Let some things suck

Focus on learning

6. Beware the siren call of investors

1. Focus on the Value Proposition

2. Qualitative not Quantitative

3. Focus Groups are Evil

4. Own customer development AND the UX

5. Let some things suck

6. Beware the siren call of investors

Landmines on the Road to PM-Fit

Thank you. Questions?

giff.constable@gmail.com

@giffconstable

www.aprizi.com

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