Validation
One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:
Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.
Sounds simple on the surface - the hard... See more
Brian Armstrongx.com
This story is insane.
The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed.
The founders would:
> Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies"
> Take notes by hand while sitting... See more
Brian Chesky explains how Airbnb solved the chicken-and-egg problem
“Marketplaces are incredibly defensible at scale, and maybe it’s because they’re incredibly hard to start. And the problem is simple - they call it the chicken and egg problem.”
As Brian explains, it was tough to bootstrap... See more
Startup Archivex.comThe Elusive Product-Market Fit
medium.com
Make the problem smaller before you make it bigger
A reflection on simplifying product development, sharing advice from investor Andy Weissman about starting small, embracing simplicity, and iterating based on user feedback to build better consumer apps.
LinkMVP
Pricing Guide for Early-Stage Startups
The pricing guide outlines various pricing strategies for early-stage startups to achieve product-market fit, emphasizing the importance of user adoption and learning through experiments before settling on a revenue model.
LinkAbout 1% of a company’s value comes from its originating idea.
The figuring it out part is responsible for the other 99%.
For example:
> Slack’s original concept was as an internal communication tool for a gaming company called Tiny Speck. When the gaming... See more
Marc Randolphx.comStripe’s first users didn’t sign up… the founders onboarded them manually.
A genius early-stage growth hack that every startup should learn. 👇
Slavon Codingx.com