This was by far the best lecture of the series. Peter Reinhardt is prepared but not rehearsed and there is an honesty to his talk without doing the shenanigans of modern presentation - no theater, no inserted jokes and made up stories. Thank you.
10:41 - building a platform (data inside of your platform - allows other businesses to build a business on top of yours) 18:34 - the response we should get 'wow this really solves our problem' 22:48 - on the journey for 1.5 years 27:17 - product market fit - where the customers are running away wanting to use the product (achieved via landing page, hacker news and github) - beta list 45:49 - at the beginning its just hustle - cold calling, emailing, speaking to everyone you know, intros 46:14 - at the beginning no one is going to help you, you just got to go out and find customers
Many comments are missing the key point, which in my mind is being honest with yourself and focusing on working through the problem tangent as compared to the solution tangent ...
My favorite lecture so far, including the ones posted back in 2014. Funny presentation that was easy to understand and to get something out of, especially thanks to the variety of relatable, real life examples he used. Love how we also mentioned the Lean Startup book, proving how useful and gamechanging books can be.
This is definitely one of my favorite videos of the class, especially since a lot of the recent ones have been lacking.
I really appreciated that in this video, Peter used his past experience to create actionable items for us as students (something that the most recent videos haven't been doing).
Loved the speaker - very smart while still being humble. His lecture really added a lot to Startup School.
I really appreciate āthe feelā of product market fit. We have a product is doing okay but never feel like the product palling the whole company forward. It might be the size of the market need to solve the particular problem or we are just not capturing the problem correctly. By talking to the customers in a precise way (like jtbd type interview) help us to re-identify the customer problem.