If you believe that sales fix everything, it follows that most startups fail because they don’t ship a great product in a growing market before they run out of money. Assuming you’ve picked an explosive market, how do you go about building a great product? Building great products is hard, but the difficulty is greatly exacerbated if you have no good model for analyzing products and features. Without a model you’re left with a never-ending stream of feature ideas and half-informed shots in the dark. Some people can pull this off because they start out with a phenomenal product intuition. But most people aren’t blessed with this superpower on day one.
In this issue:
- How to Start a Startup Sam Altman Follow @sama Lecture 7: How to Build Products Users Love Kevin Hale Follow @ilikevests , View Kevin's Slide Deck. View the annotated transcript, and add annotations of your own, on Genius, or directly at the bottom of thi
- Quality is not a tradeoff. – The Year of the Looking Glass – Medium
- The Ten Principles Of Building Great Products
- Make Things As Simple As Possible, But Not Simpler
- How to build great products
- The Power Of The Perfect Slice
- 10 critical steps to create products that customers love
- Get out of the building
- How to Listen to Customers - How do you hone in on what users really need?
- How to Structure (and get the most out of) Customer Development Interviews | Building Customer Driven SaaS Products
- The Customer Is Always Right... Except When They...