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The Technology Adoption Curve and PMF

The Technology Adoption Curve and PMF

Update: 2025-12-16
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Most tech startups die in the gap between enthusiastic pilots and actual revenue. Your innovation team loves you, but production teams won't return your calls. Selling to innovators who'll never deploy your product creates a dangerous illusion of market validation.




The Technology Adoption Curve is your survival map. On the Marketing Execution Podcast, we break down the five distinct buyer profiles that determine whether your disruptive technology crosses the chasm or dies in the pilot graveyard. You'll discover why that $10K pilot with a high probability of scaling to $100K in 9-12 months beats the flashy enterprise deal every time. Learn to identify the fatal flaw of innovators, decode early adopter motivations, and recognize when approaching the late majority will kill your momentum. This framework reveals exactly when you've achieved true product-market fit, and it's not when you think.




I've used these principles to generate over $500M in revenue for tech startups navigating complex enterprise sales. This episode delivers the specific sequencing strategy that prevents your sales team from spinning on pipelines that never close.




Subscribe to the Marketing Execution Podcast for GTM strategies that turn technical innovation into market dominance. Visit https://growthstage.marketing to learn how Marketing Pods enable companies to scale their marketing impact without a big team, expensive consultants, or agencies.

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The Technology Adoption Curve and PMF

The Technology Adoption Curve and PMF

Mark Donnigan