Twitch founder Emmett Shear on the best users to talk to for finding product/market fit
Short excerpt from a YouTube interview with Twitch founder Emmett Shear about finding product/market fit. Shear emphasizes that the most valuable feedback came from people who tried competing services (Justin.TV, Ustream, Own3D, YouTube), decided against Twitch, and could point to specific details explaining why they chose other products — making them especially useful to talk to when diagnosing product faults.
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