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Pick a Niche Narrow Enough to Win

Most founders aim at a crowd and hit no one. Pick a wedge so narrow the right buyer feels it was built for them, then expand on your terms.

14 lessons31 min

About this course

You think you have a target customer. You have a crowd. And a crowd never feels spoken to.

Most positioning fails the same way: the niche is wide enough to feel safe, so the message lands on no one in particular. This course replaces the vague ICP with a wedge, the narrowest defensible slice of a market where you can win outright before anyone bigger notices you.

You work through the materiality trap that makes a narrow niche genuinely hard to attack, and the pressure to widen too early that quietly collapses momentum. Then you map the path from that first wedge to a larger position, so going narrow now reads as a starting move, not a ceiling.

Who it's for

Early founders: keep chasing a broad market and watch the pitch ring hollow with everyone.

Solo operators: need one buyer to commit fast and cannot afford to compete on breadth.

Marketers and product leads: want positioning that survives the internal push to serve everyone at once.

Course Curriculum

Find your wedge
Why a Crowd Never BuysThe Two Tests a Wedge Must PassNarrow It in Four QuestionsNarrow a Shift-Scheduling AppFind Your Wedge Knowledge Check
Hold your wedge
The Size That Keeps Big Companies AwayHold the Wedge When People Push You to WidenAnswer Six Pushes to WidenHold Your Wedge Knowledge Check
Grow from your wedge
Grow Out From the Wedge You WonWrite Your Wedge SentenceCheck Your Wedge Is Big EnoughTest Your Sentence on Five BuyersGrow From Your Wedge Knowledge Check

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What you'll learn

  • Why a Crowd Never Buys
  • The Two Tests a Wedge Must Pass
  • Narrow It in Four Questions
  • Narrow a Shift-Scheduling App
  • Find Your Wedge Knowledge Check
  • The Size That Keeps Big Companies Away
  • Hold the Wedge When People Push You to Widen
  • Answer Six Pushes to Widen
  • Hold Your Wedge Knowledge Check
  • Grow Out From the Wedge You Won
  • Write Your Wedge Sentence
  • Check Your Wedge Is Big Enough
  • Test Your Sentence on Five Buyers
  • Grow From Your Wedge Knowledge Check