Speed up your market success by building a comprehensive PMF plan using the Five Factors Framework
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Course overview
Top rated by tech founders & product managers from U.S., U.K., Israel and India.
Rated Top 50 Maven Course!
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Many early stage companies hustle to find product market fit hoping to get lucky. They launch the tech, get a bunch of early customers - and hope that they find the market. Hustle without a plan, hope without a strategy, doesn’t work.
This bootcamp offers an alternative.
Master the PMF Five Factors Framework, a market driven structured approach to:
1. Figure out the right customer to target
2. Position your product offering, not just tech
3. Establish your category point of view
4. Lay out your go-to-market pathways
5. Assess the key talent you need
Tie it all together with a plan ready to test in the market.
This cohort-based course includes live teaching, videos & worksheets, peer feedback and solo projects to level up your entire PMF plan.
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You're an early or growth stage B2B Tech Founder who knows the hustle.
You need to speed up your PMF plan for lean times.
02
You’re a Product Leader that has a product [MVP] in a competitive market - but not enough customer traction yet.
03
You’re a GTM Leader (Sales or Marketing) with early customers.
Though you are not sure of the ideal profile or the best GTM to reach them.
A clear assessment of your current PMF
You will have a baseline understanding & score of your current PMF - what's good, what's not. You will uncover key risks in your plan that you should address.
A new customer & company story
You will create a sharper company story ready to test with customers, investors or partners - all built around your value hypothesis.
An actionable PMF plan - ready to execute
You will have a smarter PMF plan ready to test in market that reduces your key risks of failure
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Live sessions
Learn directly from Anurag Wadehra in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
8 live sessions • 102 lessons • 9 projects
Jun
5
Learn why a structured approach to PMF matters
Practice the sharp questions to get familiar with PMF Five Factors Framework
Create your Baseline PMF Scorecard, using the framework
PROJECT: Complete and Share your PMF Baseline Scorecard
PRE-WORK: Why PMF is Hard (9 min)
PRE-WORK: What are the five common PMF pitfalls (4 min)
PRE-WORK: Intro to PMF Five Factors Framework (10 min)
PRE-WORK: How good is your PMF today (2 min)
PRE-WORK: Power of sharp questions (6 min)
PRE-WORK: How to score your customer factor (10 min)
PRE-WORK: How to score your product factor (8 min)
PRE-WORK: How to score your category factor (12 min)
PRE-WORK: How to score your go-to-market factor (9 min)
PRE-WORK: How to score your talent factor (10 min)
PRE-WORK: How to summarize your PMF baseline scorecard (2 min)
PRE-WORK: How to navigate PMF (6 min)
REFERENCE: PMF Five Factors Framework SUMMARY
REFERENCE: FREE video course for scoring your PMF baseline
Jun
12
Establish where your product fits in the software (tech) stack
Map your customer subtypes for buyers and users
Identify relevant value frameworks for each customer subtype
Build value drivers for each customer subtype
Summarize your Hungry Customer archetype
PROJECT: Complete and share your Customer Factor Calibration
PRE-WORK: Intro to calibrating Hungry Customer ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK: Establish your software stack ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK: Identify your customer archetypes ~ 15 min
PRE-WORK: Map relevant value frameworks ~ 8 min
PRE-WORK: Anchor in the right value drivers ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK: Summarize your ideal Hungry Customer ~ 2 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Who is the Customer in Business Marketing?
PRE-WORK | READ: Four Customer Archetypes Across All B2B Software
PRE-WORK | READ: Who Are Your Champions?
REFERENCE | Hungry Customer SUMMARY
OPTIONAL: Creating Champion Developers
OPTIONAL: The Only Two Ways to Attract Customers
Jun
19
Define your Magical Product
Discover your Brand Insight
Define your Brand Promise
Differentiate your Offering
Summarize your Magical Product
PROJECT: Complete and share Product Factor Calibration
PRE-WORK: Intro - how to calibrate for Magical Product ~ 5 min
PRE-WORK: Begin with your product "secret" ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK: Select the canonical use case ~ 11 min
PRE-WORK: Identify your brand insight ~ 3 min
PRE-WORK: Build your product offering ~ 8 min
PRE-WORK: EXAMPLES from various companies of their Product elements ~ 16 min
PRE-WORK: Define your brand promise ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK: Check alignment - is your brand promise bold? ~ 2 min
PRE-WORK: Consider GTM trade offs of your product offering ~ 11 min
PRE-WORK: EXAMPLES of various companies GTM tradeoffs ~ 8 min
PRE-WORK: Summarize your Magical Product ~ 1 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Elements of a Tech Brand Story ~ 10 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Product vs. Offering: What's the Difference ~ 10 min
REFERENCE: Magical Product SUMMARY
Jun
26
Set and play a New Game in Category
Create your contrarian POV
Define your change criteria
Paint an inevitable future
Identify an early adopter segment
Summarize your New Game in Category
PROJECT: Complete and share Category Factor Calibration
PRE-WORK: Why categories matter ~ 6 min
PRE-WORK: Intro to how to calibrate for new game ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK: Define your current category ~ 6 min
PRE-WORK: How to set a new game in category ~ 3 min
PRE-WORK: Find a novel insight ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK: Generate a contrarian POV ~ 6 min
PRE-WORK: Determine how contrarian POV changes criteria ~ 9 min
PRE-WORK: Segment by contrarian POV ~ 3 min
PRE-WORK: Target early adopters ~ 6 min
PRE-WORK: Position POV to Product ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK: CASE STUDY New Game Play - Apigee Inc. ~ 9 min
SPECIAL EDITION: Creating a NEW game in a NEW category ~ 7 min
PRE-WORK | READ: What's your category game? ~ 15 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Playing a new game in category ~ 10 min
REFERENCE: What's your category game SUMMARY
SPECIAL RECORDING - More detailed steps on how to create a contrarian POV in AI
Jul
3
Assemble your story building blocks from calibration
Create your brand value story (positioning)
Build your value story test plan
PROJECT: Create your brand value story
PRE-WORK: Intro - Brand story ~ 8 min
PRE-WORK 2: Building your story blocks ~ 5 min
PRE-WORK 3: Structuring your story ~ 7 min
PRE-WORK 4: Mapping story to customer journey ~ 12 min
PRE-WORK: Why your story needs to change as you grow ~ 7 min
PRE-WORK: How to evolve your story as you grow ~ 7 min
PRE-WORK: Brand story - key takeaways ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Elements of Tech Brand Story ~ 10 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Google Cloud Brand Case Study ~ 10 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Brand Stories & Hero's Journey ~ 10 min
BONUS | READ: Interview, Brand Head, Google Cloud ~ 10 min
REFERENCE: Does your Brand Story have a Spine?
Jul
17
Determine your GTM pathways
Find your customer orientation (intensity)
Find your Product Offering GTM Tradeoffs
Choose your primary GTM strategy (PLG, ALG, etc.)
Map user & buyer journeys for your GTM path
Choose your channel pathways, as necessary
Summarize your Repeatable GTM
Short list top GTM pathways, sequencing and metrics
PROJECT: Complete and share GTM Factor Calibration
PRE-WORK: Intro - how to calibrate for Repeatable GTM ~ 3 min
PRE-WORK: Assess your customer intensity ~ 5 min
PRE-WORK: Consider GTM trade offs of your product offering ~ 11 min
PRE-WORK: EXAMPLES of GTM trade offs by companies ~ 8 min
PRE-WORK: Build your GTM strategy ~ 10 min
PRE-WORK: Prioritize your direct GTM path ~ 5 min
PRE-WORK: Map your user and buyer transformation journeys ~ 8 min
PRE-WORK: Determine user and buyer GTM metrics ~ 1 min
PRE-WORK: Adding channel pathways ~ 5 min
PRE-WORK: Managing multiple GTMs ~ 3 min
PRE-WORK: Two GTM alignment checks ~ 3 min
PRE-WORK: Summarize Repeatable GTM ~ 1 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Orchestrating Three Pathways into Business Customers ~ 10 min
PRE-WORK | READ: A Pattern For Account Led Growth Relationships ~ 10 min
PRE-WORK | READ: A Pattern For Product Led Growth Relationships ~ 10 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Patterns For Channel Led Growth Relationships 10 min
PRE-WORK | READ: Why Bridging Across Growth Pathways Is Hard ~ 10 min
REFERENCE: Customer Relationship Intensity SUMMARY
REFERENCE: Repeatable GTM SUMMARY
Jul
24
Ready your team & talent for PMF
Ensure Founder to Category fit
Ensure CTO to Product fit
Ensure GTM Lead to Pathway fit
Prepare for key customer relationships
Summarize your Ready Talent
PROJECT: Complete and share Talent Factor Calibration
PRE-WORK: Intro to calibrating for Ready Talent ~ 6 min
PRE-WORK | Founder Category Fit ~ 5 min
PRE-WORK | CTO Product Fit ~ 3 min
PRE-WORK | GTM Lead to Pathway Fit ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK | Customer relationship roles fit ~ 9 min
PRE-WORK | Summarize your Ready Talent ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK | READ: What is customer relationship equity? ~ 15 min
BONUS: Towards a customer relationship model ~ 15 min
Identify key uncertainties (known & unknown) for each factor
Define the information & insights needed to lower risks
Build PMF sprint plan to execute in-market
PROJECT: How to build & test PMF risk mitigation plan
PRE-WORK 1: Intro to PMF risk mitigation plan ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK 2: Develop story validation plan ~ 4 min
PRE-WORK 3: How to mitigate each key risk factor ~ 13 min
REFERENCE: PMF Risk Mitigation Plan SUMMARY
Assess your final cut PMF calibration
Compare to your baseline scorecard
Get ready for in-market sprint
PROJECT: FINAL CUT_PMF Five Factors Scorecard + Path Forward
Jul
31
Learn whether you are ready to enter the U.S.
Apply the Five Factors Framework to assess U.S. market entry
Develop step-wise plan to lower risk of entering the U.S.
READ: So you want to find PMF in the U.S.? ~ 15 min
FREE - 30 min Mini-video course to score your U.S. fitness hypothesis
SPECIAL OFFER: PMF Essentials for Entering the U.S. Market ~ 4 hour video course
A clear assessment of your current PMF
You will have a baseline understanding & score of your current PMF - what's good, what's not.
A new customer & company story
You will create a sharper company story ready to test with customers, investors or partners - all built around your value hypothesis.
A actionable PMF plan - ready to execute
You will have a PMF plan ready to test with in market, based on calibration of what you know and what you need to find out.
Saurabh Moody
Radhika Advani
Hannah Seiber
Amir Shub
Navneet Singh
Satya Sree Akella
Nawar Alsafar
Noemi Kis
Vinay Mamidi
Sekhar Rao
Growth Coach & Advisor
I have 35+ years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive at companies like Google and Procter & Gamble.
Now, I am an advisor to fast growing tech companies across the globe. I’ve coached 100+ tech founders, product & GTM operators. My two passions are storytelling and sense making. These help me generate insights and create frameworks to help others grow their business.
I’ve done six startups ranging from zero-$100MM+.
I have been a tech founder, run P&L, owned product management, built global marketing teams and created solutions up-and-down the software tech stack: from cloud [Google Cloud] to data infrastructure [Siperian:Informatica], to APIs [Apigee] to SaaS apps [LivePerson, Omada Health].
Beyond startups, I was the CMO at two public SaaS companies (LivePerson, Apigee); and have been part of one IPO and two M&As.
You can find my thinking at Growth Matters newsletter www.anuragwadehra.com
Why I started this course
In my experience, entrepreneurs take on the PMF challenge in two ways. An inside-out approach: build an MVP and then test it with a few users or customers. Or outside-in: find a few customers and build what they want. Both have their blind spots.
I’ve created this course based on my experience in combining inside-out and outside-in approaches which speed up market discovery and reduce risks.
I have profound respect for tech entrepreneurs. They are the brave souls who dare to innovate. I love the experience of guiding them through the PMF terrain, since I’ve done it many times.
~ 16-20 hours in total over 8 weeks
Thursdays
8:30 am-9:30 am Pacific Standard
ONE live sessions per week with instructor and peers
Eight Week Course
8 live sessions (total), One each week
Before Each Live Session
~ Study 1-hour of async material beforehand (videos + readings) to learn concepts
During Each Live Session
~ Engage in 1-hour live session
~ Bonus materials (optional)
Async pre-work (videos & readings) before each session
~ 1 hour per class
You are expected to learn the core concepts through videos and worksheets BEFORE you come to each session.
We recap the material briefly in class but you spend most time on hands-on exercises (group & solo), case studies and live Q&A to make progress on your PMF.
Bite-size Solo Projects
~ 1 hour per week
In person AMA sessions
Join Anurag for in-person AMA sessions at TiE Silicon Valley Office
In person celebration
Join in-person celebration of the graduating TiE cohort
In person cohort meet ups
Join the TiE cohort members for meet ups after the course
For more details
Email aw@anuragwadehra.com or patricia@tiesv.ai
Still not sure about the course?
Email me at aw@anuragwadehra@.com for a FREE 15-min call to figure out whether this bootcamp is for you.