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A guide for finding product-market fit

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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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How to validate your B2B startup idea

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Here’s how some of today’s biggest B2B startups began: Retool started as Venmo for the U.K. There are four ways to validate your startup idea—and it’s fairly clear which path you should take depending on your product and your experience in the problem space. Art by Natalie Harney. Forty percent (nearly half!)