Product
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Content about building, testing, and iterating on a product or service offering. The primary focus is the *thing being built* — what it is, how to test it, and how to improve it based on what you learn.
Showing 318 articles for Product.
Customer discovery
Podcast
Teresa Torres on continuous discovery, the opportunity solution tree, and customer interviewing
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 30, 2022
Customer discovery
10
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Management
5
One interview per week beats months of upfront research.
Your opportunity space should contain needs, never solutions.
Asking what people did beats asking what they would do.
Feature prioritisation
Podcast
Gibson Biddle on product strategy, prioritisation, and career growth
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 20, 2022
Feature prioritisation
9
Business models
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
Why delighting customers in hard-to-copy ways beats competing on features
Misaligned Growth vs. Monetisation ranking is the top startup killer
Treat your career like a product: hypothesise, experiment, iterate
Product strategy, PM career growth, and lessons from eight years at Asana
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 16, 2022
Roadmapping
9
Management
7
Long-term planning
5
Strategy needs vision, framework, and roadmap — most have only one.
One conversation with your manager can unlock every promotion.
Senior IC pay rivals management — the ladder isn't the only path.
Gokul Rajaram on product development, hiring leaders, and angel investing
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 13, 2022
Roadmapping
8
Hiring & recruitment
8
Fundraising & VC
6
Dictating tactics instead of problems turns engineers into a feature factory.
Recruit the lieutenant, not the head, from best-in-class companies.
Invest in founders across multiple companies — omissions cost more than losses.
Five frameworks for high-impact product management from Shreyas Doshi
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 7, 2022
Roadmapping
9
Business operating systems
7
Communication
6
Pre-mortems unlock honesty that post-mortems can't — run them before launches
Most execution problems are actually strategy or culture problems in disguise
Stop optimising for positive ROI; minimise opportunity cost instead
MVP & prototyping
Podcast
Building SaaS with limited dev skills, no-code, and two-sided marketplaces
Startups For the Rest of Us
May 31, 2022
MVP & prototyping
8
Business models
7
No-code & low-code
6
No-code works for MVPs but rarely scales to a full SaaS product.
Bootstrapping a two-sided marketplace without an existing audience almost always fails.
Prove willingness to pay manually before writing a single line of code.
Feature prioritisation
Podcast
How to decide which features to build as a bootstrapped SaaS founder
Startups For the Rest of Us
May 24, 2022
Feature prioritisation
9
Roadmapping
7
Business models
5
Feature voting boards pressure you to build the wrong things.
Six-week cycles protect time for ambitious bets over quick wins.
Freemium works best when free features feed directly into paid ones.
Customer discovery
Podcast
Do things that don't scale: Building Airbnb
Masters of Scale
May 3, 2022
Customer discovery
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Vision & mission
5
Spend early growth obsessing over a handful of users, not millions.
Manually build until it breaks, then automate the most painful step.
Design the absurdly perfect experience, then work backward to what scales.
Product-market fit
YouTube
Three principles for reaching product-market fit in SaaS
TK Kader
April 10, 2022
Product-market fit
9
Niche selection
6
User surveys lie — only payment reveals real demand
Market choice drives product decisions, not the other way around
Recency bias kills iteration; measure experiments over time
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to validate and launch a million-dollar business in one day
Noah Kagan
March 23, 2022
MVP & prototyping
9
Niche selection
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
Sell before you build — get paid before writing a line of code
Two questions that generate every viable business idea
Three quick market research checks that rule out dead ends
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
When to launch your startup and when to wait
Y Combinator
March 15, 2022
MVP & prototyping
9
Pivoting
6
Resilience & grit
5
There is no single launch — you launch repeatedly until it lands
Instacart, Brex, and Magic all shipped with almost no back end
Delaying is only valid if you've already built this product before
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Software hacks that don't scale: lessons from Gmail, Facebook, and Twitch
Y Combinator
February 16, 2022
MVP & prototyping
9
Long-term planning
6
Case studies
5
Gmail's invite system wasn't a growth hack — the hard drives were full.
Facebook ran a separate database per university for years to avoid scaling MySQL.
Google secretly served stale search results for months — and nobody knew.
Customer discovery
Podcast
How Jason Buckingham found a SaaS idea through 70 cold calls
Startups For the Rest of Us
February 8, 2022
Customer discovery
9
Founder interviews
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
70 cold calls — not a network — uncovered an unserved niche.
Pre-selling mock-ups before writing code proved real commitment.
Near-zero churn: not one customer lost to a competitor in years.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to validate and launch an online course in 30 days
Sunny Lenarduzzi
February 8, 2022
MVP & prototyping
9
Content marketing
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
Sell a live prototype to real buyers before recording anything
Your ideal client is a mirror of your own past struggle
30-day launches generating $12k–$50k before the course exists
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Why simple products beat feature-rich ones that don't work
Y Combinator
January 26, 2022
MVP & prototyping
9
Product-market fit
7
Deep work & focus
6
A product with one working feature beats many broken ones.
Validation from investors and press is not product-market fit.
Discipline, not intelligence, separates founders who execute.