The Only Thing That Matters

Marc Andreessen

2007

Product/market fit is the only thing that matters for a startup — when you have it, everything else follows.

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“In a great market — a market with lots of real potential customers — the market pulls product out of the startup.”

“In a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world and an absolutely killer team, and it doesn't matter — you're going to fail.”

“The #1 company-killer is lack of market.”

“The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit.”

“You can always feel when product/market fit isn't happening. The customers aren't quite getting value out of the product, word of mouth isn't spreading, usage isn't growing that fast, press reviews are kind of "blah", the sales cycle takes too long, and lots of deals never close.”