I have been a teacher for seven years. I worked for the federal government of my country as a teacher and I, now, often teach the english language to kids and teenagers and adults here in Russia. But, I must say, you are a very great educator! The way you perfectly fit the 'pizza story' into the whole market fit narrative is overwhelmingly wholesome!!. You are exactly the right kind of guy to make a platform like stan. TBH I am learning a lot from you.

@jzk2020

6 ай бұрын

Ok calm down, Stan. Keep your pants on.

These videos keep on getting more and more creative

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

here to entertain sir - hope you enjoyed!

this was blissful. This is the content that makes me watch youtube.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Awww thank you so much Tenzin ❤️ What a sweet comment - I really appreciate it!

Great video! The best analogy I’ve heard is imagine you’re playing darts and bullseye is PMF. You have 18 months to hit bullseye. The best startups configure themselves to throw as many darts as possible, each one getting closer than the last. The worst startups spend too long trying to create the perfect dart and only throw a few before they die. Speed to iteration is the number 1 thing you should optimise for pre PMF. From a product perspective try to focus on two metrics: Activation & Retention. A lot of start-ups skip the former but it’s arguably the most important of the two initially… there is no party if people leave after 5mins. So get obsessive about learning what your Activation metric is and when you crack it configure the whole on-boarding experience toward it. I’m yolo moving from London to the US (state TBD) and looking for my next Chief of Staff / Strategy / Product role at an early stage startup I believe in. HMU in the comments if you know of any opportunities. LinkedIn sucks. 🙏🏽

@SuperKillaki

11 ай бұрын

@@nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej3384 when your user gets or builds their first meaningful bit of value from your product. E.g. for KZread when you watched your first interesting video… it made you come back for more.

@user-bv3zt1gk6t

9 ай бұрын

can you drop your social handle?

I thought the whole pizza thing is gonna be a gimick but omg I couldn't be any more wrong! This was a fantastic video that actually demonstrates Product-market -Fit!

@jayhoovy

10 ай бұрын

Hahahah it was me desperately trying to make a nerdy biz topic more fun

Thanks for the amazing content and making it fun and simple to understand

Digging the pizza-product fit while you explain product-market fit. Entertaining and educational.

You definitely needed to roll out that dough thinner. Also, appreciate the breakdown, Rahul's presentation is great, and he builds on the work of Sean Ellis, if you want to get more advanced it's great to be able to layer in user behaviour where you see the retention curve and customer value. It's worth adding that hard data to the survey results so you can validate the survey results with their actions.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Hahahaha next pizza video will be better 🤦🏻 👨🏻‍🍳

I've been really loving your videos - thanks for documenting your journey

@jayhoovy

4 ай бұрын

D'aww - thank you so much for the kind words Marie! The hope is that you take all of my learnings from my journey, and they make you even more successful in yours!

Thanks for another great video. Can you say how often did you iterated? It seems like keep reaching out to your users might irritate some. Also, how early have you started doing this?

Love the video! May I understand how often we should conduct these surveys too? Especially when it's sent back to the ones who have filled it up before. Thank you!

What an amazing skill you have. Not only can you make a perfect video describing exactly what I was looking for but you're making a pizza while doing it. When you IPO i'll invest.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

HA - my pizzamaking skills are still very subpar, but I appreciate your support Walker!

@carlosriquelmea

11 ай бұрын

​@@jayhoovyI was thinking something like that... Good idea for content

Y combinator defines it fairly well (in the context of a startup) as achieving a virality coefficient of 1.1, meaning on average for each user you get they will tell 1.1 other people who will actually use it. Obviously, the numbers don't make much sense if not thought about in averages. If your able to achieve this, then your users will grow exponentially over time. Y combinator has videos on the relevant KPI's (key performance metrics) to keep track of in order to know if you have hit product market fit.

You are brilliant, don't give up!

Great video, John! The fit is not easy to achieve but once we hit it, it feels so seamless...

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

So true Anna! Thanks for the kind words as always - your comments and support make my day!

Hey Jay, content is amazing as always. I’ve got a question, could you make a video on how you got your business up and running. Especially from the start of your idea to then hiring people as you go. Cause I have the problem where I feel like I need to know everything but end up not sticking with learning one thing extremely well.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Ahhh - so like a "Everything You Need to Know to Start Your Own Business" kind of video? Or let me know what exactly you mean and I'll make it! Also - thanks for the kind words Akira!

@akira3132

11 ай бұрын

@@jayhoovy Yeah for sure! Anyways pretty much me and probably other aspring entrepreneurs have an idea but don't know what steps to take to really get the ball moving. How do we hire quality talent, develop a MVP, find co-founders that we can bond with, etc. Any experiences you had when you had when Stan was a business idea and how it grew would be hugely beneficial to people like me who don't know how to get the business "snowball" to move. Thanks!!

This video is so fun! Best PMF tutorial online that also teaches us how to make pizza. Will Stan branch out into the pizza business next?

Great vid! How did you get a significant number of survey responses? Sometimes I feel like that can be the hardest part.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Definitely tough if you’re early and don’t have much customer traction - you can incentivize in that case with a gift card / some other sort of more personalized value!

awesome video! also the first iteration of the pizza looked pretty dope! which pizza oven is it?

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Luba! Hope ur recovering from VidCon. It’s an Ooni!

What camera are you shooting on ? Looks great!

How long into the startup journey should one get to test for product market fit

Idk how I found your channel but I’m really glad I did! I’m in the early stages of forming a startup and was thinking about documenting the journey as well. Btw, curious to know how you built the MVP version of the product without a technical cofounder and which features were part of it?

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

I was a CS undegrad so I have very mediocre coding skills - but you can easily find a cheaper agency on a site like Upwork to build an MVP for ya!

@aqil199

10 ай бұрын

It is reaaally good video

@ogollaogolla7

9 ай бұрын

I am also building a startup and I think we should document the process as well.

@jzk2020

6 ай бұрын

​@@jayhoovyyou recommend an agency over a freelancer? Why

Wholesome! Can't wait for Stan to get to that >40%

Great Video! I’m curious if you’d be open to talking about how you get paid as a founder before hitting profitability? It’d be interesting to hear the dynamics of how you determine a salary while balancing other aspects of the businesses needs.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

I just paid myself a living wage of $70k! But as the company gets more successful I plan to pay myself a bit more - I personally am super happy living with pretty little - I'm lucky to have a roof to sleep under + food on the table - and other than that + loved ones, I'm content. :) I'd say general rule - pay yourself at minimum enough to not have stress deteriorate your actual ability to work on the startup! From there, kind of up to you!

This is brilliant

Watching the video I would've guessed that you had at least a million subs. Great work man you deserve more attention

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

We're on our way there! Thank you for being along for the journey!

This was great! I've been using the Superhuman Engine for PMF too, pretty powerful framework. Dude your channel is great, I've really been enjoying hearing your challenges and learnings.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Appreciate the kind words Harsh! Any specific learnings or challenges you'd want me to cover? Hoping it helps in your own entrepreneurial journey!

@harshsikka

11 ай бұрын

​@@jayhoovy My friend, more of a meta-challenge/learning: how do you navigate stress and burnout as a founder? I recall in your board meeting with Forerunner in one of your recent vlogs that you mentioned you were feeling burnt out. Wondering if you have any tips/tricks/frameworks to ease burnout while on this crazy journey.

Hey Jay, great video explanation of how to iterate on customer feedback to get closer to PMF. What tools do you use to run this survey among your users? Did you incentivize your users to complete this survey? If yes, how?

@jayhoovy

5 ай бұрын

don't need anything more than a typeform/google forms! and ideally you should have strong enough customer connection that they'll willingly fill out - but yes, can always incentivize

literally took my pen and notebook for this.

genius. I'm only commenting so I can get more of your video on my feed haha

I love your vids!! How long did it take you to develop your MVP (I assume it was by yourself)?

@jayhoovy

6 ай бұрын

1 month! Unless you're building something super deeply technical, try to hold yourself to shipping as soon as possible!

@TYinNYC

6 ай бұрын

@@jayhoovy Holy!! Thats crazy. Thank you!

Great advice Jay. Pls where can I get the Superhuman Engine for PMF.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

This is the full article you can reference! review.firstround.com/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit

i'm actually doing this now for an app im building.

love the video! , keep it up Jay!

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Appreciate the kind words Akbar! Cheers!

Best explanation of PMF ive seen

@jayhoovy

10 ай бұрын

@PedroRicardo_

10 ай бұрын

@@jayhoovy for sure! you made it really easy to digest by quantifying it. Although one needs to be really careful about these results… if you send this survey to the wrong user segment you are f* Quick question… why was your first reaction to the results to double down on the features wanted by the 10%? After seeing the results my brain 🧠 immediately asked how can I make the 40% move to those 10%. Just wondering about the thought process 💭

Doing an amazing job. Keep it up.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

You're part of the reason I'm keeping going Charles! Thanks so much for the kind words!

How did you get the demographics of the customers? Were your customers selected ( people you knew ) or random? Because I don't see how you can get information about their demographics unless you make them fill out another survey or put personal information into your app.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

We just asked them those questions in the survey they filled out!

It is reaaly good video 🎉🎉🎉

Do you have a newsletter / blog where you write about your learnings? This was a great breakdown of PMF!

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Yes I do! I’m about to pub a new one Monday: thecreatorentrepreneur.substack.com

@crsmth

11 ай бұрын

@@jayhoovy Subbed. Good luck growing your channels!

You gonna be big soon leaving this so its known I saw you early

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Let’s both come back to this when I get big one day! Cheers and thanks for being an early supporter!

How many people is ideal per survey? How many businesses if B2B? Anyone, thanks.

Hi Jay, I have one question w.r.t. asking users of how do they feel if they stop using our product. Can we ask this question (i.e. would the answers would be valid) to clients to whom we recently pitched our product to?

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Yes! But it will be less effective and true signal vs someone actually using it!

@tnitin1025

11 ай бұрын

@@jayhoovy after pitching the product people praise it a lot but are not forward to using it, then in this case the existing users are low too then how to check for PMF

@user-ze6wu3mk5b

11 ай бұрын

@@jayhoovy I want to check if PMF is the reason of why users are coming in board

Man I literally followed your videos first … then got stan… and then only realised it’s yours 😂

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

HAHAHA love to hear it Robert! Please reach out anytime we can be helpful - and welcome to the #StanFam!

Thanks for not putting pineapple on pizza, Jay. That means a lot to us Italians. Another proof this guy understands what PMF truly is.

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Thought about doing it just to troll ya haha! Ciao Francesco!

How did you get the lighting so nice?

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

the sun :3

Hey, cool video! How many people have to fill out the survey to take accurate insights?

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

I would try to get at least 30 responses to make sure you have meaningful enough data!

1:07 target market, my product/ 2:59 how to find a product market fit, once you have a target market, and product

... the moral of the story: making ton of pizzas! 🍕 Dope ending))

Can you make a video on how to pitch to investors

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Yes! Have one of these planned :) make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out!!

@johndphiri997

21 күн бұрын

Right

Hi Jay! Good to find you again after you left me a comment on my page you’re inspirational.

@jayhoovy

10 ай бұрын

Glad to hear Mary! Cheers!!

Felt like I've just watched Kill Bill 2's final scene where Bill was preparing sandwich for his daughter, while giving some kind of lecture. Lol

simple metaphors prove your genius

Banger vid

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Banger sub - thank you sir

@srisaisushangumadavalli4049

11 ай бұрын

@@jayhoovy i aspire to be you some day

I like your content. 🤝🤝

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

I like you Juan! 🤝

I am very happy for your PMF but please chill with the olive oil!!!!

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Hahahahahah will do 🫒 🫡

That has to be the worst pizza I have ever seen 😂

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

can confirm the pizza was scrubby (but tasted solid!) haha!

P R O M O S M 🌟

W

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

W

The flour on the macbook at the right corner of screen is triggering

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

Same tbh 🍞 🍕

This is great! Lmao

what do you do when literally no one from your first 100 users even replies or engages back with you to provide feedback ? we have 100% users who dont care ahah - funny but damn dont know

please buy a pizza cutter

Hey jay love your content, would love to connect on twitter (if you have one :D)

@jayhoovy

11 ай бұрын

I do! @Jayhoovy! But I don't check it very often

Hey Jay, Love your videos! ... will be great if you can find a way to collab with @ColinandSamir, it will be a good thing for Stan.