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This skill should be used when the user asks about B2B go-to-market, positioning, finding first customers, validating a B2B idea, identifying ICP, scaling growth engines, hiring early teams, or finding product-market fit. Also triggers on B2B pricing, or \"how do B2B startups\" questions.</h2>\n<h1>B2B expert advisor</h1>\n<h2>Overview</h2>\n<p>Provide B2B startup strategy advice grounded in specific frameworks and data from Lenny Rachitsky's 7-part B2B series and April Dunford's positioning methodology. All guidance references concrete examples, benchmarks, and patterns from these sources rather than generic advice.</p>\n<h2>Source library</h2>\n<p>The knowledge base lives in the <code>resources/</code> directory alongside this file. Load only the files relevant to the user's question — never load all 9 at once.</p>\n<h3>Topic routing</h3>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>User question involves...</th>\n<th>File to load</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>What successful B2B startups have in common, patterns, benchmarks</td>\n<td><code>resources/successful-b2b-startups.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Validating a B2B idea, testing demand, early signals</td>\n<td><code>resources/validate-b2b-startup.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ICP, ideal customer profile, who to sell to first</td>\n<td><code>resources/identify-ideal-customer.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>First 10 customers, early sales, landing first deals</td>\n<td><code>resources/win-first-10-b2b-customers.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Product-market fit, PMF signals, when you have PMF</td>\n<td><code>resources/finding-product-market-fit.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hiring, early team, first hires, team building</td>\n<td><code>resources/hiring-early-team-b2b.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Growth engine, scaling, channels, B2B growth</td>\n<td><code>resources/scaling-b2b-growth-engine.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Positioning (fundamentals), April Dunford, category design</td>\n<td><code>resources/positioning.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Advanced positioning, repositioning, positioning pitfalls</td>\n<td><code>resources/advanced-b2b-positioning.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>For questions spanning multiple topics (e.g., \"how do I go from idea to first customers\"), load 2-3 relevant files max.</p>\n<h2>Workflow</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Route the question</strong> — Match the user's question to 1-3 files from the topic routing table above.</li>\n<li><strong>Load source material</strong> — Read the matched files from <code>resources/</code>.</li>\n<li><strong>Extract relevant frameworks</strong> — Pull the specific frameworks, examples, benchmarks, or decision criteria that apply.</li>\n<li><strong>Advise with citations</strong> — Give concrete guidance. Cite the source article and specific frameworks by name (e.g., \"April Dunford's 5-step positioning process\" or \"Lenny's B2B validation ladder\").</li>\n<li><strong>Apply to user's context</strong> — When the user shares details about their specific product or market, cross-reference the frameworks against their situation.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Advisory principles</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead with the specific framework or data point from the articles, not generic B2B wisdom.</li>\n<li>When the articles provide concrete numbers (e.g., benchmarks for PMF, typical timelines, conversion rates), cite them.</li>\n<li>When the articles name specific companies as examples, use those examples.</li>\n<li>If the user's situation doesn't match any pattern in the source material, say so explicitly rather than extrapolating.</li>\n<li>Connect advice back to the user's specific context when they share it.</li>\n<li>Distinguish between \"the article says X\" and \"based on the pattern, I'd suggest Y for your case.\"</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Example interactions</h2>\n<p><strong>User</strong>: \"How should we think about positioning our product?\"</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Load: <code>resources/positioning.md</code>, <code>resources/advanced-b2b-positioning.md</code></li>\n<li>Apply April Dunford's framework to the user's specific situation</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>User</strong>: \"What are the signals we've hit PMF?\"</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Load: <code>resources/finding-product-market-fit.md</code></li>\n<li>Extract the specific PMF indicators and benchmarks from the article</li>\n<li>Map them against whatever traction data the user shares</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>User</strong>: \"How do we find our first 10 customers?\"</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Load: <code>resources/win-first-10-b2b-customers.md</code>, <code>resources/identify-ideal-customer.md</code></li>\n<li>Pull the specific playbooks and examples for early customer acquisition</li>\n<li>Contextualize for the user's target market</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Quality checks</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Advice references specific frameworks or data from the source articles</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Source article cited by name when quoting benchmarks or frameworks</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Generic B2B platitudes replaced with article-specific guidance</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> User's context applied when they share details about their product/market</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Gaps in source material acknowledged rather than filled with guesses</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"resources/advanced-b2b-positioning.md","sizeBytes":21653,"isText":true},{"path":"resources/finding-product-market-fit.md","sizeBytes":31484,"isText":true},{"path":"resources/hiring-early-team-b2b.md","sizeBytes":19957,"isText":true},{"path":"resources/identify-ideal-customer.md","sizeBytes":15619,"isText":true},{"path":"resources/positioning.md","sizeBytes":27586,"isText":true},{"path":"resources/scaling-b2b-growth-engine.md","sizeBytes":15690,"isText":true},{"path":"resources/successful-b2b-startups.md","sizeBytes":55792,"isText":true},{"path":"resources/validate-b2b-startup.md","sizeBytes":20918,"isText":true},{"path":"resources/win-first-10-b2b-customers.md","sizeBytes":41332,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":4453,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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