Read with me:
- Picking your North Star metric. This article is not new, but a good reminder on how you may pick the North Star metric for your business and product line.
- 10 Uncommonly Useful Observations on Product-Market Fit. 1 minute read. It is absolutely correct that PMF for B2B and B2C differs. There might be some signals in B2B that still would keep you going. I'm curious what Sean Ellis would think about it.
- A path of a marketing leader at Lattice. Fascinating read. Lattice's hire #3 - their marketing leader - shares his path, how he learnt on the job and his views.
- Use owner mode to get to $100M ARR. I shared Paul Graham's article about the founder mode vs the manager mode before. This time there is a new mode - "owner mode". Some quotes:
This is where “owner mode” comes into play. It’s not about maintaining iron-fisted control, but about propagating the owner mindset. This means making intentional, explicit choices at every level of the company. Every organizational decision – from how you spend your time to how you run meetings – shapes your company’s DNA.
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he emphasized that prioritizing execution over strategy is a key aspect of “founder mode.” An obsession with strategizing can act as an escape from the hard work of actually getting things done. The most effective founders, in his view, use execution to clarify strategy, not the other way around.
Bonus track:
- Congrats to Percona PostgreSQL team on releasing Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL v17 a week after a community release. Thats the spirit! Awesome job.
- Yesterday we sat down with Percona Valkey experts and members of the community. We discussed the Valkey Operator they are working on. It is great to see how this community is growing and evolving.