AoA Workshop – The Art & Science of Achieving Product Market Fit

The primary reason startups don’t succeed is because they fail to achieve product-market fit. In this talk, you’ll hear about the importance of riding technology or global macro trends to displace incumbents, the value of conducting customer discovery in a highly disciplined manner, and the key metrics to track to determine if you have achieved product-market fit.

Shirish Nadkarni is a serial entrepreneur with proven success in creating multiple consumer businesses that have scaled to tens of millions of users worldwide. Shirish was the co-founder of Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning site with 15+ million registered members from over 200 countries. Livemocha was acquired by RosettaStone in 2013. Prior to Livemocha, Shirish was the founder of TeamOn Systems, a mobile wireless e-mail pioneer that was acquired by BlackBerry in 2002. The TeamOn technology served as the core foundation for Blackberry Internet E-mail which serviced over 50 million BlackBerry users. Shirish is the author of From Startup to Exit – An Insider’s guide to launching and scaling your Tech business.

Shirish received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.