Been struggling since transitioning from senior PM to co-founding a startup. Used to rely on sprint cycles and user research, but now I’m buried in investor calls and HR fires. How do you all preserve that product strategy muscle while handling founder chaos? Any frameworks or daily habits that actually work?
product thinking as a founder? good luck. all those frameworks become PowerPoint confetti when you’re begging for seed money. prioritize not starving first, then maybe revisit your precious ‘strategic alignment’ slides. truth is, you’ll pivot 6 times before lunch anyway. adapt or die.
omg this is so relevant! im considering making the jump too but scared of losing my pm edge. anyone try timeboxing strategy hours or using OKRs diffrently? pls share tips!!
I advise founders to block ‘product sanity’ hours weekly. Use modified RICE scoring for resource allocation, even in non-product decisions. One founder I mentored created crisis/opportunity triage boards – similar to bug prioritization. The key is systematizing judgment calls without over-engineering. What decision fatigue patterns are you noticing?
You’ve got this! Those PM superpowers will shine through! Maybe try rapid prototyping mindset for biz decisions?
When I left FAANG to start my thing, I literally put user stories on my investor decks. Got weird looks at first, but now my board expects ‘feature roadmaps’ for scaling ops. Funny how pm habits morph into founder tools. What old skills have y’all repurposed?
2023 Founder Survey shows 68% use modified product frameworks for strategic decisions. Common adaptations: translating CAC metrics to ‘acquisition sprint’ cycles, treating hiring pipelines as dependency mapping. Recommend auditing where your existing PM mental models can apply to biz scalability challenges.