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Building and Selling are two separate things. Peter is elegantly describing what knowing how to build but not fully grasping how to sell looks like for some tech organizations.

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It’s no coincidence to us that Tinders PMF was immediate… Who would have thought people are willing to meet strangers? 1) Tinder acts as a middleman, the platform main objective is for people to join the app and connect people to people near them. 2) It’s a business that their objective was to see value in relationship, romantic relationships but still relationship. 3) Right Time, Right Placement…. Tinder focused on the people looking for their product college students and college campuses, in a time where social media wasn’t connecting us as we hoped. 4) User friendly UI… Swiping Right is Yes … Swiping Left is No! How simple is that? 5) Control over who you meet… “you may want to meet me but maybe i don’t want to meet you”. We at BLU have studied them quite a bit, and their success. At the time filled a vacuum for the people most in need; to people who suffered quietly; college students! The rest is history to be studied, replicated and improve upon.

it's a marketing game. The product must provide value to your users and industry to succeed and get adoption. The most important thing is that your idea is worth sharing.

A very important post for founders to see. Product market fit is critical for companies to establish. While perseverance is important, measuring market fit with objectivity is critical as startup often ignore signs and insist they are right. The ultimate test for market fit is when customers are ready to pay / adopt and use the product enthusiastically leading to sustainable revenue growth.

Product market fit is like developing a product for people needs rather than developing a product and finding people who need it. The later one is a disaster most of the time.