Why B2B Startups Should Target SMBs First, Not Big Enterprises

Through Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want, I get to talk with a lot of smart and ambitious founders. They’ve either begun by building a MVP or by doing customer discovery within their relevant network, and because their end-game is enterprise, the opportunity only seems

How Much Time Do You Need to Reach Product-Market Fit in B2B?

This is a post about a missing part in Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want. I stumbled on this concept a little after book publication and would have loved to include it to explain product-market fit. I’ve never seen a (B2B) company get to anything

What Makes a Great B2B Value Proposition in The Early Days of a Startup?

A great B2B value proposition is compelling, quantifiable, provable, referencable and easily explainable. Although your value proposition might not be all of this when you start, it’s one thing you should always be refining. The Two Types of Benefits a B2B Value Proposition Can Have

What The Best B2B Entrepreneurs Have in Common

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-Founder and CEO Many of the world’s best B2B entrepreneurs didn’t initially set out to do what you now know them for. Hiten Shah, Co-Founder of KISSmetrics famously spent a