{"id":917,"date":"2020-05-24T16:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codify.in\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=917"},"modified":"2022-01-11T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:50:38","slug":"problem-solution-fit","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/glossary\/problem-solution-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem-Solution Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having reached problem-solution fit means that you&rsquo;ve understood your customers&rsquo; needs\/ jobs-to-be-done and their desired outcomes. It also means that you&rsquo;ve created a solution that addressed these needs in a unique way, as customer feedback suggests so (validation of desirability). However, contrary to widely-held opinion it does not mean that you already have evidence that they would really buy it. This next inflection point in lean validation is called <a href=\"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/glossary\/product-market-fit\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Product-market fit means: you have collected evidence that your solution solves your customers' problem(s) in a way that they prefer over current alternative solutions; you have proof that they are willing to pay for it; and your service demonstrably gains its first traction in the market.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">product-market fit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A problem-solution-fit occurs if a startup has proved both: 1) that there is a &#8218;problem worth solving&#8216; for one or more clearly defined customer groups, and 2) that there is evidence that these customer groups would consider the value proposition of the solution the firm proposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-category":[134,135],"encyclopedia-tag":[259,217,260,261],"coauthors":[142],"class_list":["post-917","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-category-innovation","encyclopedia-category-lean-startup","encyclopedia-tag-business-model-fit","encyclopedia-tag-lean-startup","encyclopedia-tag-product-market-fit","encyclopedia-tag-strategy-fit"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-category?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}