{"id":5251,"date":"2021-01-12T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2021-01-12T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:53:09","slug":"paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Developing a product for a newer market is a black box. We know nothing;   the market research and user interview have their limitations. A lot comes with the founder&#8217;s conviction and a limited set of anchor customers. It has been my learning while building B2B software for over four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brain gets tempted to expand the market size, deviate from the core.  It could be because of multiple reasons: short-term cash flow, increasing the total addressable market, etc. We get short-sighted and miss the long term product vision and end up becoming a sandwich, something as a product we never thought of being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It hurts the team the most because they see an organization diverging from its core vision and output getting fragmented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a leader, your job is to eliminate this confusion and sail through this paradox with clarity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing a product for a newer market is a black box. We know nothing; the market research and user interview have their limitations. A lot comes with the founder&#8217;s conviction and a limited set of anchor customers. It has been my learning while building B2B software for over four years. The brain gets tempted to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/paradox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;paradox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,121,101],"tags":[1058],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}