Lenny's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In B2B, it normally takes two years to start feeling product-market fit Here’s an overview of how long it took 24 of today’s top B2B startups to get to (1) a live product, (2) their first customer, and (3) their first feeling of PMF: The median time from idea to feeling product-market fit was roughly 2 years.

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Lenny's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

” — Eilon Reshef , co-founder and CPO Coda had the same experience—finding their early customers through former colleagues and early employee connections: “My former colleague Noam Lovinsky was starting a company, and I said to him, ‘Hey, would you use Krypton [our name at the time]? .” But it worked.”

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Lenny's Newsletter

AUGUST 29, 2023

” — Tomer London , co-founder and CPO The founders of Gong landed on three highly nuanced attributes: “We tried to narrow it down as much as possible. ” — Eilon Reshef , co-founder and CPO As did Snyk : “Our initial target audience was a developer building with Node.js Art by Natalie Harney.

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Lenny's Newsletter

AUGUST 8, 2023

In addition to these juggernauts, I’ve also pulled in a handful of my favorite up-and-coming B2B startups, including Linear, Vanta, Stytch, Zip, Census, Persona, and Hex. Most B2B startup ideas did not come from the founder feeling the pain at their last gig (though many did). Every prosumer product (e.g. Art by Natalie Harney.

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