Want Product/Market Fit? Double Your Effort to Understand Failure

Gabe Zichermann
The Startup
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4 min readFeb 11, 2020

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As a startup founder or new business leader, you’re probably laser-focused on finding a product-market fit for your idea. Most entrepreneurs believe that you are looking for a positive correlation — that is, the feature/positioning or price point that will magically start making your product grow organically. This is like drilling boreholes to locate oil in the early 20th…

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Gabe Zichermann
The Startup

Author and Public Speaker on Gamification, The 4th Industrial Revolution, the Future of Work and Failure. More about me: https://gabezichermann.com