A product can fit a market and still fail when customers, costs, or participation scale.
Follow the chain from customer concentration and fit to growth economics and system effects.
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A powerful customer can matter strategically without silently becoming the strategy for the whole product.
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Opportunity size is relative to the organization; a real market can still be too small to matter against an incumbent’s growth commitments.
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Product market fit proves a value relationship, not that distribution, monetization, support, economics, and organizational capability also fit.
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Adoption and revenue are incomplete signals if you cannot reason about variable cost and cost to serve.
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A product can grow exactly as intended and still become economically worse when cost grows faster than value captured.
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Network growth creates value only when additional participants improve the probability or quality of useful interaction.
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