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Building the Product - Garry Tan
Garry Tan emphasizes a product-driven mindset for startups, advocating for shipping products quickly to test their effectiveness rather than overanalyzing beforehand. He highlights the importance of fanatical customer support and understanding user pain points to drive growth and improve product offerings. The takeaway is to hate the problem, ship the product, and love the users.
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- 1. The Product-Driven STATE OF MIND Garry Tan // cofounder, posterous.com SEATTLE STARTUP DAY 2010
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- 3. 1 // HATE
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- 5. Focus on solvingproblems Most things are solved pretty poorly.
- 6. Avid Technologies byBill Warner (1987)
- 7. Being useless innew ways does not make yours fundamentally different from the previous useless products. // Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail and Friendfeed
- 8. 2 // SHIP
- 9. Ship a quantumof product
- 10. Posterous at launchin 2008
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- 13. Why a quantumof product? Don’t boil the ocean. Don’t be an island. You don’t know what will work and what doesn’t until it’s out there. You can’t optimize using analytics if you haven’t shipped. You can’t start the viral clock. Real artists ship.
- 14. Shipping It solvesthe problem. It is what we are here for. Everything else is just window dressing.
- 15. 3 // LOVE
- 16. We’re not buildingcars, we’re throwing awesome parties
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- 18. Fanatical Customer SupportAnswer every email. Feel the pain your users are experiencing. If one person emails you, there are 10 or 100 other people who have failed there. BE THANKFUL. They are doing you a favor. Fix it ASAP.
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- 20. Study of UsenetNew Posters Of newcomers who post and get no reply -- 16% came back . Those who do get a reply (even one!) -- 26% came back.
- 21. What a 10%difference in growth rate will do in 24 months....
- 22. HATE theproblem SHIP the product LOVE your users The Product-Driven STATE OF MIND
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- 24. Thank you! Feelfree to contact me at [email_address]
Editor's Notes
- #4 1) There are a lot of problems in the world. 2) They are solved in a half-assed way. 3) You are put here on this earth to fix them.
- #5 Computers are extremely frustrating examples: PC Load letter from office space Bill Gates couldn’t use Movie Maker without an insane number of steps
- #6 IDEAS SHOULD BE ABOUT PROBLEMS There are a billion problems. Choose one. AngerAvoid technology for technology’s sake.We’re put on this earth to make each other’s experiences better. Being useless in new ways does not make your fundamentally different from the previous useless products. ~Paul Buchheit
- #9 1) Quantum of Product, aka Minimum Viable product 2) Get it in the hands of users. 3) Iterate We could hem and haw all day about problems, but it’s nothing til we...
- #10 No autopost, no web editor, no RSS! Minimal. Amazon launched in 1994 Book reviews in 1996 YEARS. Then iterate.
- #16 1) Fanatical customer support 2) Great parties
- #17 We’re not building cars here. It’s not about the technology.
- #18 It’s about throwing an excellent party.