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Product Add-Ons Are An Expansion Myth (December 12, 2024) Add-ons can enhance your product’s appeal but won’t drive significant market growth. To expand your customer base, focus on developing standalone products.

Too Big To Fail (April 4, 2024) When a company piles resources on a new product idea, it doesn't have room to fail. But failing is an important part of innovation. If you can't let it fail, it can't succeed.

Go small (April 4, 2024) The strengths of a large organization are the opposite of what makes innovation work. Starting something new requires that you start with a small team.

Start with a Belief (April 4, 2024) You can't use data to build products unless you start with a hypothesis.

Mastery doesn't come from perfect planning (December 12, 2023) In a ceramics class, one group focused on a single perfect dish, while another made many with no quality focus. The result? A lesson in the value of practice over perfection.

Measuring Feature success (October 10, 2023) You're building features to solve problems. If you don't know what success looks like, how did you decide on that feature at all?

Tyranny of Outcomes (August 8, 2023) An extreme focus on outcomes can have an undesired effect on product teams.

Domain expertise in Product Management (November 11, 2020) When you're hiring software product managers, hire for product management skills. Looking for domain experts will reduce the pool of people you can hire and might just be worse for your product.

The KPI that measures Product-Market Fit (September 9, 2020) If you ask this question to a different small group of your users every week, you can measure trends over time to determine if you're moving toward product-market fit.

The Improvement Flywheel (April 4, 2020) An incredible flywheel for the improvement of a development team. Fix a few things, and everything starts getting better.

Dysfunctions of output-oriented software teams (September 9, 2019) Whatever you call it, the symptom is that you're measuring your progress by how much you build and deliver instead of measuring success by the amount of customer value you create.

Evaluative and generative product development (August 8, 2019) Customers never even talk to the companies that don't fit their needs at all. If the only product ideas you're considering are those that meet the needs of your current customers, then you're only going to find new customers that look exactly like your current customers.

Building the Customer-Informed Product (August 8, 2019) Strong products aren't composed of a list of features dictated by customers. They are guided by strong visions, and the execution of that vision is the primary focus of product development.

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Product Add-Ons Are An Expansion Myth
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Building the Next Big Thing: A Framework for Your Second Product
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