Dear Reader,
Welcome to the 27th edition of the good reads newsletter by Malpani Ventures. Sharing your weekly dose of articles for this weekend’s reading!
How To Build A Product Roadmap Everyone Understands
https://medium.com/prodpad/how-to-build-a-product-roadmap-everyone-understands-522b36270e5
Nobody reads detailed roadmaps. But clearly designed roadmaps are powerful enough for teams & companies to put them at the centre of their product & business decisions respectively. Andrea Saez shows you how to use your product roadmap to communicate high-level priorities so clearly that anyone — from CEO to summer intern — could walk away knowing what’s going on.
How to Measure Product Launch Success: 12 KPIs You Should Be Tracking
https://www.crayon.co/blog/the-secret-to-product-launch-success-kpis
According to Harvard Business School, of the approximately 30,000 new products launched each year, about 95% fail. Of course, the product failure rate varies from one industry to another—for example, grocery products fail at a rate of 70-80%—but think about it: When you launch a new product, your odds of success are 25 to 1. If casinos offered those kinds of odds, they'd go out of business overnight.
Valuation at the early stage for Indian Startups
This one is a bit special. My colleague Dhruv is now on Substack! He answers the most sought-after question of early-stage founders - “How do I arrive at a valuation for my early-stage startup?”
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