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Tuomas Artman

What Tuomas Artman thinks about startups

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Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.

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2 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Tuomas Artman has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingThe MVP as a hacky product built to validate an idea no longer works: in a saturated market you have to build something substantially better from day one.

    Their wordsThe MVP as a practice of building a hacky product as quickly and cheaply as possible to validate the product does no longer work. Many product categories are already saturated with a variety of alternatives, and to truly test the viability of any new idea you need to build something that is substantially better.

    ↗Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive productlinear.app

  3. Our readingTo compete with limited resources, scope down who you are building for as much as possible and solve the problems of specific people.

    Their wordsTo be able to do this with limited resources, you must scope down your audience (and thus your ambitions) as much as possible to make competing easier, and aim to solve the problems of specific people.

    ↗Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive productlinear.app