Tag: product-market fit


  • We made the same call as the customer who left us

    On the last Monday of September, I saw the same build vs buy decision from both sides of the table, a few hours apart. In the morning, one of our customers called to say they would end a service we run for them. From January, a team elsewhere in their group would have spare capacity,…

  • We kept hunting for early adopters our market doesn’t have

    We’re a small company selling into a narrow, heavily regulated market. There are maybe a few dozen buyers that really matter, and most of them are cautious about anything new. For a long time I treated getting our first real customers as a search problem. Looking at where those customers actually came from, I realized…