Startups & Getting Started

Your northstar metric may be broken 🛠

Choosing MAU/DAU because facebook doesn't make sense anymore.

Link · shorts.growthx.club

Founders should think about channel/offer fit instead of product/market fit

Is telling founders to focus on finding product/market fit really helping anyone?

Link · jakobgreenfeld.com

How to know when to pivot?

Last month I launched a bootstrapped service that I've been building for a year. I've shared it with various niche communities, and received a lot of po...

Link · indiehackers.com

Your North Star

Having a clear Northstar for the future makes it easier to make decisions in the present.

Link · naomi.com

Seven Legends of Leverage

In a recent conversation, I stumbled into an idea. I was trying to show the power of leverage – how doing the right work is more important than the amount of work you do.  Trying to describe this, I said with no proof or evidence whatsoever, “there are people who do the right one month

Link · ejorgenson.com

If we can make a product work for *anyone*, it usually works better for *everyone*

One of the hardest things about building a product like WhatsApp is that, as a development team, we’re primarily not building for ourselves.

Link · amivora.substack.com

SaaS Growth Strategy — Step-by-Step Worksheet

Hey everyone,

Link · medium.com · #b2b · #growth

Why You Don’t Need to be “Enterprise-Ready” or “Scalable” as Yet and Other Notes on Crafting B2B Software with Contenda’s Founder, Lilly Chen

Fretting over scaling issues too soon, often means laboriously imagining and lugging product freight from the future. It’s believing that the faint, distorted, mostly unreachable calls of possible features and overnight adoption fears matter more than the asks of the present roadmap. In the following exchange, Contenda’s founder, Lilly Chen (@lilly), advises fellow enterprise SaaS founders to, at first, doggedly solve for the current problem-set instead of toiling over “future-proofing” or be...

Link · gorelay.co · #b2b

Offer-led Growth

Product-led growth. Audience-led growth. Community-led growth. These buzzwords mislead indie founders. Last week, this poor guy asked a question here on...

Link · indiehackers.com · #growth

Mapping the Insights that Drive Startup Ideas & Theses

A framework developed working backwards from the Mental Models for Ideation

Link · newsletter.sandhill.io

What I Learned About Startups by Collecting 30,000 Data Points

I spent 4 years conducting one of the largest studies on startups to understand what differentiated billion-dollar startups from failed…

Link · alitamaseb.medium.com

Early Adopter Marketing – How startups get their first users

Early adopters play a crucial role in PMF and growth. In this post, I'll show you why they are so important, how to get them, and what to do with them.

Link · kevin-indig.com

How the MVPs of the billion dollar businesses got their first 1,000 customers

And what happens when you skip that step

Link · startupwin.kelsus.com