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Why we picked it This lays out the case that your product can be its own distribution, so you sell less by design. It is aimed at exactly the founder who would rather ship features than cold-email prospects, with concrete principles like optimizing time to value and letting users adopt without talking to a human. Treat it as a starting map, not a rulebook, since most companies end up blending self-serve with some human touch later.
10 Product-Led Growth Principles
From Bessemer Venture Partners by Janelle Teng and Ethan Kurzweil (Bessemer Venture Partners) About a 20 minute read
- Build the product as its own distribution vehicle so adoption, retention, and expansion can happen without a sales rep in the loop.
- Obsess over time to value: find the smallest self-contained unit of value a user can reach alone, fast.
- Product-led is a spectrum, not an absolute, so know when a light human touch (for bigger accounts) still makes sense.