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Varun Srinivasan
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How to ship fast as a small company looking for product-market fit 1. Avoid side quests. If you aren't coding, selling or talking to users, it's a side quest. 2. Eliminate process. Don't cargo cult your team into sprint planning, offsites or recurring 1:1s. Gather once a day, talk about what to ship and ship it. 3. Hire people who love to ship fast all the time. Most people cannot do this correctly or do not enjoy doing it. 4. Don't hire people who can't ship. It's temping to get an ea, bd rep or community manager to offload work. This usually just creates more work for you. 5. Have a simple and fast tech stack. A new hire should be able to write a feature in a day and deploy it to users in 30 minutes.
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You said 3 things are critical: shipping, talking to users and selling But it sounded like you only want to hire people that are really good at shipping and primarily focus on that How do you make sure you’re spending enough time selling and talking to users? Are you happy with how much time/ resources are allocated to this vs shipping?
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