The startup dilemma: optimize for revenue or product data?
“Are you optimizing for usage and data and building the product?”
what would you wanna see on the go to market side? Because I feel like I maybe lately missed the mark. What are you optimizing for? Are you optimizing for revenue? Are you optimizing for usage and data and building the product?
I mean, there's there's a part of the Venn diagram you can do both. Mhmm. But I struggle with which one you're you're trying to do. Yeah. I would say in terms of that Venn diagram, certainly, if it was possible to optimize for both, that would be ideal. But I think right now, I'm hungry for case studies. Like, I'm hungry to be able to say, you know, hey. After ninety days of using Ally Oop, there were five unknown product gaps that were identified and prioritized on the road map, and that's, like, a faster time than ever to get from
About this clip
A founder grapples with the classic go-to-market challenge of whether to prioritize revenue generation or product usage data collection. They reveal their current strategy of focusing on building concrete case studies that demonstrate measurable value, like identifying product gaps within 90 days of using their platform.
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This captures a universal founder struggle between competing priorities and offers a specific tactical approach to resolving it through case study development.
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