Go-to-Market
Also called GTM and Go-to-Market Strategy
Go-to-market: the plan for how you reach customers and win them, who you sell to, through which channels, with what pricing and sales motion. The bridge between building a product and growing a business.
Why it matters
A great product with the wrong go-to-market fails, and many startups die not from a bad product but a mismatched motion. Getting GTM right, matching how you sell to who buys and at what price, is as decisive as the product itself.
For example
A startup with a 5,000-rupee product chooses a self-serve GTM, while one with a 50-lakh product builds an enterprise sales team, because the buyer and price demand different motions.
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