Insights Startup Design

Startup Common Sense, Part 1

Published July 20, 2026

Original publish date: February 27, 2024

I find these statements hard to argue with:

Startups fail at a rate of 90%, mostly because they fail to find product-market fit before running out of resources. Building a product soaks up resources and isn’t necessary to test PMF.

So the logical conclusion is to test for product-market fit before building an MVP.