Understand your customers
Finding your niche / beachhead
Win a tiny market completely before going wide.
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How do I know when I've won my niche and it's time to expand?
You've won when you're the obvious default in that segment, customers refer you unprompted, your name comes up first, and growth within it is slowi...
How do I find a defensible niche in a market full of big incumbents?
Find the customers the giants ignore or serve badly, too small, too specific, too weird for them to bother. Your edge is caring about a segment the...
Is it smarter to go niche by industry or niche by city first when I'm building outside the big startup hubs?
If your product spreads through word of mouth or needs local operations (delivery, field sales, in-person onboarding), a single city you can physic...
My beachhead worked and now I'm stuck there. How do I know it's time to expand to the next segment, and which one?
Expand when you're winning the current niche predictably (repeatable sales, referrals, a clear playbook) and growth is slowing because you're runni...
For an Indian B2B SaaS, is it better to win a niche in India first or go straight for a global niche?
If your niche buyer in India is reachable, willing to pay, and gives you fast feedback, winning them first builds a real reference base cheaper tha...
How do I write positioning and messaging that speaks to just my beachhead without sounding tiny to investors?
Point the product's daily message at the niche (use their words, their job title, their exact pain) while keeping the vision story for investors ab...
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