patience
the art of waiting
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patience
VC requirement for SaaS companies to scale to $10M ARR in record time is BS.
UiPath: $500K 10 years in.
Klaviyo: $1M ARR 3 years in.
Lightspeed: $10M ARR 8 years in.
It takes time to nail true customer love.
Be patient, stay lean, remain super close to your customer.
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“The fast way is the slow way because the slow way is the only way”
– Steven Bartlett
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"Move fast and break things" is outdated advice for startups.
Software ate the world—and there's more competition than ever.
Our startup learned the hard way to ignore this advice, and this is what happened:
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incredible to see the growth curve of Acquired, one of the most popular podcasts. if it would've been a startup, it would've been shuttered after two years because of slow growth. good things take time.
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“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
A quote by Jacob A. Riis
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