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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Ideal Customer Profiles CPO B2B Startups 112

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.

CPO 145

CPO Product Work Management Enterprise Management 145

Lenny's Newsletter

AUGUST 8, 2023

Over the next two months, I’m going to share a multi-party in-depth playbook for kickstarting and scaling a B2B business. 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. Every prosumer product (e.g.

Startups 52

Startups Work Management CPO Enterprise Management 52

Buffer

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

One of the things that inspired me to launch earlier than I may have otherwise, was an initiative someone started on Hacker News called November Startup Sprint. We decided to get on a plane and travel to what we thought of as Startup Mecca, San Francisco. This helps us take a genuinely long-term view on the business.

Ad Building 77

Ad Building Work Management Paid Search Agency Transparency 77