Product

What is Product–market fit (PMF)?

When a product satisfies strong demand in a market — users retain, return and recommend it.

PMF shows up as flattening retention curves, organic word of mouth and customers who would be very disappointed if the product disappeared. Scaling before PMF is a common cause of startup failure.

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