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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

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Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Why doesn’t everyone do this?”

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

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This is why we actually have one of the lowest # of investments/partner among all institutional seed funds, and have invested in developing a platform of resources to support founders around team building, product, customers acquisition, and capital planning.

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Building Something vs. Proving Something

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And to do that, founders either spend way too much money on a third party dev shop, or hire a “lead engineer” that is capable, but not really a star. Some early customer acquisition data may also be determined by spending against an offering that is described but doesn’t actually exist.

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Highlights from NextView’s inaugural Hiring Bootcamp

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Treating your talent acquisition with the same level of rigor as your customer acquisition will maximize your chances at landing the talent you need to scale the business. no one wants to be the first female engineer joining a 15-person all male-engineering team. Sourcing and branding?—?seek

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A Framework for Startup Traction & Pitfalls to Avoid [Traction #12: Gabriel Weinberg]

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In this episode, we talk to Gabriel Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of the search engine Duck Duck Go and author of the book, Traction , now in its second edition. How a product without a concept of a “registered” user like Duck Duck Go addresses acquisition and hunts for signs of a potentially venture-scale business.

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How to Build a Great Product Before Hiring Your First PM

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When you have extremely limited engineering resources, it’s even more critical to stay focused and clearly set your priorities. they can range from customer acquisition, product engagement/stickiness, or business model. Approach 2: Allocate [x]% of your engineering bandwidth for such activities and do not go over.

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