Design + Product Sprint Thinking

What it feels like when you've found product-market fit

👋 Hello, I'm Lenny and welcome to a ✨ once-a-month-free-edition ✨ of my newsletter. Each week I humbly tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that's stressing you out at the office.

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10 Places to Find Product-Market Fit

Startups fail because they run out of money before achieving product-market fit. NFX Managing Partner Gigi Levy-Weiss identifies 10 places to look for product-market fit in startup ideas.

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TBM 4/52: Think Big, Work Small (Part 2)

Note: This post is a variation of this post. They communicate a similar idea, but in different ways. That post is part of my 2020 Collection, available on Gumroad for $5, or as a single page free book here. Consider this simple graphic: How does your team work?

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Async Facilities VS Update 3/31

How Doximity backdoored into physician registrations without targeting physicians - iMedicalApps

Genius. Brilliant. Doximity just announced they passed the 50% physician registration mark. I saw this coming a few months ago when they announced their partnership with US News for their "prestigious" hospital ranking list, and when Doximity started to create "Top Residency" lists. And they did this without actually targeting physicians.

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Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model

Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.

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Optimizing For Feelings

It's a question we often ask. And while it's not our style to dwell on the past, there's simply no way around the fact that we're pretty fed up with a certain philosophical framework in Silicon Valley. We believe this mindset has led us to a very specific place: one of efficiency, productivity, and profit...

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