Understand the job
What GTM actually is
The job behind the acronym: how a product finds, wins and keeps customers, and who does what.
What does 'go to market' actually mean? People say GTM constantly and I still cannot define it.
GTM is the whole answer to one question: how does a stranger who has your problem end up paying you and staying. That covers who you sell to, what ...
I am a founder and I have never sold anything in my life. Where do I actually start?
Start by talking to twenty people who have the problem, with no intent to sell, and write down the words they use. Then go back to the ten who lean...
How do I tell whether our GTM is genuinely working or we just got lucky with a few deals?
Luck looks like revenue. Working looks like repeatability. Ask whether you can name the trigger that made each of the last ten buyers start looking...
What is the real difference between product-led, sales-led and everything in between, and which one are we?
The question is not which model you prefer, it is who signs and how much they are risking. If one person can start using the product on a card with...
When do I stop selling myself and hire the first person, and what kind of person should that be?
Hire when you have closed roughly ten to twenty deals yourself, can describe who buys and why in one paragraph, and are spending more than a fifth ...
How do I turn the thing that worked when I did it into an engine someone else can run?
Write down what you actually do, not what you think you do. Record your own calls, listen back, and pull out the four or five moves that keep showi...
What do the very best GTM teams do that everyone else does not?
They treat GTM as a system they design rather than a set of tactics they copy. The best teams pick one narrow group of buyers and go absurdly deep,...
How do the best companies decide to change their GTM motion instead of just grinding the current one harder?
They watch for the signal that effort and outcome have decoupled: same activity, worse conversion, longer cycles, more discounting. That is a motio...