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2025-08-28
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The Product–Market Fit Blueprint for Competition Teams

A step-by-step framework to validate desirability, viability, and feasibility before demo day.

Dzaki Hakim
Business Competition Expert & Mentor
The Product–Market Fit Blueprint for Competition Teams

The Product–Market Fit Blueprint

Winning teams don’t guess; they iterate quickly toward desirability, viability, and feasibility.

1) Desirability: Evidence Customers Care

  • Problem interviews (n ≥ 10) with verbatim quotes
  • Top 3 painful jobs-to-be-done, ranked by intensity
  • Before/after grid: status quo vs. new world

2) Viability: Numbers That Hold Up

  • Bottom‑up TAM: segment × price × penetration
  • Unit economics table (COGS, CAC, LTV) with assumptions
  • 3 pricing experiments (good/better/best) and objection logs

3) Feasibility: Build the Thin Slice

  • MVP scope in one week (happy path only)
  • Tech risk list with mitigation per risk
  • Demo script that proves the core value in 90 seconds

Deliverables Judges Love

  • 1‑page validation summary with links to raw notes
  • 60‑second demo video
  • A crisp metric: “Time‑to‑value < 2 minutes”

Final Thought

PMF is a direction, not a destination. Ship, watch, learn, repeat.

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