Best Of Product Roundup - November 16, 2024

The best expert-curated product content from the best product thinkers from around the Internet delivered twice a month.

Every two weeks, we dive into the vast ocean of product content online, both free and paid. We sift through it all to bring you the crème de la crème. Our round-up includes carefully curated links and concise excerpts from the top content.

This week’s highlights feature:

• Top 3 Long-Form Articles/Podcasts

• Top 4 Tweets

• Top 3 LinkedIn Posts or Short Videos

Our expert product team has selected these resources to help you save thousands of dollars on unnecessary subscriptions, avoid wasting time reading instead of taking action, and it saves you years spent trying the wrong advice. Our mission is to introduce you to brilliant product thinkers, whether they’re renowned experts or emerging voices.

In case you missed them, here are the posts from Emergent from the past two weeks:

1. (Video) The Smart Friend litmus test. (Paid with free preview)

2. (Video) Use "appetite" to avoid bloated development cycles. (Paid with free preview)

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Top Long-Form Content

1. The 10 biggest mistakes I made bootstrapping to $1M ARR

   1. What we liked: A sobering assessment that largely tracks with our experiences about which marketing golden gooses sound better than they are.

   2. Choice quote: “We threw everything against the wall to see what stuck and, by the start of summer 2023, had brute forced our way to $1m ARR, 36 months after product launch. On our way there, we tried a bunch of go-to-market strategies that did not work. Here are the top 10.”

2. Why your product idea sounds too complicated

   1. What we liked: We all know we need pithier descriptions of our products, and this progression helps to meet people where they are and see how to take one step at a time toward clearer ones that resonate with customers.

   2. Choice quote: “Of course it's your job to deliver these innovations, but you must learn to describe them. And cars were originally called horseless carriages for a reason -- to bridge the gap between what customers understand and what they actually want.”