The point of an MVP isn't to ship a small successful product. It's to find out, as quickly and cheaply as possible, what users actually want. Most teams forget that. They build ...
Read enough product post-mortems and the same pattern starts showing up. The vocabulary changes — "ahead of its time", "wrong execution", "team didn't sell it well", "bad market...
Total users. Total signups. Page views. Cumulative downloads. The numbers that only ever go up. These are the metrics that show up in board decks, marketing posts, and the slide...
