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Our 6 Must Reads on Pricing a Product

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A curated set of pricing deep dives from operators who have set prices at real companies. This is the right next step once you have decided to charge and need to work out how much and how to structure it. Treat it as the follow-up to the gut-check pieces.

  • Price reflects the value and ROI the customer perceives, not your costs.
  • You can learn a lot from as few as five willingness to pay conversations.
  • Pricing is a go to market decision, not a late afterthought.

The question it answers

  1. Should I charge my very first customers or give it away free to get traction?

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  3. The customer-development originator's clearest statement on scoping the minimum feature set to reach your earliest believers.... steveblank.com Article · ~8 min read Perfection by Subtraction, The Minimum Feature Set Steve Blank
  4. Patrick Campbell built ProfitWell on pricing data from thousands of companies, and this is the single best free deep-dive on... lennysnewsletter.com Article · long-form guide Pricing Your SaaS Product Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell), via Lenny's Newsletter
  5. Run by the managing partners of Prime Venture Partners (Sanjay Swamy, Amit Somani, Shripati Acharya and others), this is a... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Prime Venture Partners Podcast Prime Venture Partners
  6. Video Startup Pricing 101 Kevin Hale
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