How to Find Product Market Fit - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Stanford Online · 198K views · 2017-05-17 · 48:11

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Segment co-founder and CEO Peter Reinhardt recounts how his company found product-market fit, including how a product grew out of a small feature of another. It is a lecture from Stanford's Startup School course.

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HN founders recommend it as a must-watch on recognizing real product-market fit and avoiding solutions in search of problems.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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ed · 2024-08 · Strong recommendation
Having followed this exact playbook to validate several products I can confidently say this will give you false positives and the only reliable way to determine when you have PMF is: accidentally get PMF on something so that you know what it feels like (it’s unmistakeable). Peter Reinhardt from Segment has a must-watch talk for anyone interested in this topic [VIDEO]
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dawie · 2018-04 · Strong recommendation
You and your team should watch this 3 times right now: [VIDEO] It’s about finding product market fit after a few different products. It talks about how their new successful product (150 staff) is a small feature from one of their other products and how they scaled that! Do it!
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thojest · 2020-11 · Recommendation
For those interested in Segment, this is a talk of Peter Reinhardt about Product Market Fit and a bit of the history behind Segment. [VIDEO] I like this talk really much.
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