What Is Product-Market Fit?

What this short covers

What product-market fit is, which is an important aspect of demonstrating traction for a startup. Achieving product-market fit shows investors that there is a demand for your product or service.

Transcript

product market fit is absolutely essential and product market fit it really happens when your product or your service is flying off the shelves you can't keep up with perhaps customer support with with with people opening accounts it's just skyrocketing and that's when you've really hit a nerve in the market i mean some of the key things that really come into place here you know when determining you know the product market fit and knowing the success could be any of the following product design delivery the shopping experience customer care and after sales pricing branding who you bring on to your team to make all this happen the right way

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