About Founder’s Newsletter
My name is Tadas Labudis, and this is my personal newsletter, where I write about entrepreneurship and building digital products.
Product is at the core of every startup. When your product solves a customer’s problem, they are happy to pay you for it, which becomes your business's foundation. But navigating that first product is the ultimate test and one of the main reasons 90% of startups fail.
My whole career revolved around building products in startups. I created products as a solopreneur, as the very first PM hire, as part of a group of PMs, as a venture-backed founder, and as a product director in a scaleup. Regardless of the industry, company stage of the company or available resources, the core mission was always the same - figure out the customer’s problem and build a product that solves it before running out of money.
Whilst not all products I built were successes (welcome to the world of startups!), along the way, I picked up some crucial lessons that I’d like to share with the community.
Some of the topics I’m planning to cover in this newsletter:
Customer Development
Product Discovery and Experimentation
Developing product strategy and vision
Building the first product team
Building the first product process
Founder-PM relationship
Product-market fit
If you are an early-stage startup founder navigating your first product and building out your product team, this newsletter is for you.