PSP2: Three Ways Into a Market October 10, 2026 Jira: existing market, red ocean. When Atlassian launched Jira in 2002, issue tracking was already a crowded category with Bugzilla and plenty of commercial… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 3: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 10, 2026 AirBed&Breakfast (now called Airbnb)’s early pitch deck shows the problem in one concise slide, titled Problem. It lists Price as its first problem, which… Continue Reading
Week 3 PSP: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 10, 2026 For this exercise, I looked at the Uber 2008 pitch deck. The slides effectively show the problem by highlighting several issues with the cab… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 4: Three Value Propositions October 10, 2026 While being similarly AI meeting notetakers, the three apps try to distinguish themselves in a saturated market. Granola’s homepage is the clearest of the… Continue Reading
PSP 3: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 10, 2026 The company deck I chose to review was Mixpanel, as I’ve used their product before in my role at a startup. I was surprised… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 3: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 9, 2026 What stood out to me about Tinder’s original pitch deck, when it was still called MatchBox, was how it used a simple introductory story… Continue Reading
Week 3 PSP: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 9, 2026 In 2008, BuzzFeed was five people raising a Series A. Peretti later said nearly every investor rejected this deck, and going through it slide… Continue Reading
Week 3 Milestone: Group 13 October 8, 2026 Comparison table Problem 1 Problem 2 Problem 3 The problem Speed vs Quality Product Intuition Leadership and Team on the Same Page Evidence strength… Continue Reading
PSP3: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 8, 2026 Uber starts by identifying the pain points. They introduce aging radio-dispatch tech, lack of GPS coordination, and heavy “dead-time” as what makes the cab… Continue Reading
