Source: Finding and Fostering Great Product Sense
Summary
Hiring great product builders is critical to startup success. High-quality product sense involves generating profitable ideas and intuiting likely success, without extensive data. Individuals with strong product sense have a high volume of good ideas, structured product opinions, and tend to draw from a broader solution-space.
Fact
💡 Individuals with strong product sense generate a high volume of reasonably-good-to-great ideas
🤔 Strong product thinkers have structured opinions based on incentives, rather than gut feel
🔍 People with great product sense tend to draw from a much broader solution-space when deciding how to solve problems.