Product Strategy for Early Teams

By Salvador Pereira

The hardest part of building is deciding what not to build. Strategy is how we cut scope without cutting value.

Discovery

Align on the problem, the user and the success metric before writing code.

Smallest viable cut

An MVP scoped to validate the riskiest assumption fast, with a path to scale designed in.

Evidence over opinion

Ship, measure, and let real usage drive the next bet.