# Startups & Getting Started

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## Saves

- [Your northstar metric may be broken 🛠](https://shorts.growthx.club/p/your-northstar-metric-may-be-broken) (link, shorts.growthx.club)
  Choosing MAU/DAU because facebook doesn't make sense anymore.
- [Founders should think about channel/offer fit instead of product/market fit](https://jakobgreenfeld.com/channel-offer-fit) (link, jakobgreenfeld.com)
  Is telling founders to focus on finding product/market fit really helping anyone?
- [How to know when to pivot?](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-know-when-to-pivot-380909400b) (link, indiehackers.com)
  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...
- [Your North Star](https://naomi.com/your-northstar-6981d6cef970) (link, naomi.com)
  Having a clear Northstar for the future makes it easier to make decisions in the present.
- [Seven Legends of Leverage](https://www.ejorgenson.com/blog/seven-legends-of-leverage) (link, ejorgenson.com)
  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
- [If we can make a product work for \*anyone\*, it usually works better for \*everyone\*](https://amivora.substack.com/p/if-we-can-make-a-product-work-for?s=r) (link, amivora.substack.com)
  One of the hardest things about building a product like WhatsApp is that, as a development team, we’re primarily not building for ourselves.
- [SaaS Growth Strategy — Step-by-Step Worksheet](https://medium.com/@StartupBusinesstips/saas-growth-strategy-guide-8bc6cd82f048) (link, medium.com)
  Hey everyone,
  Tags: #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](https://www.gorelay.co/t/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/743) (link, gorelay.co)
  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 followin
  Tags: #b2b
- [Offer-led Growth](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/offer-led-growth-d75d74ebdb) (link, indiehackers.com)
  Product-led growth. Audience-led growth. Community-led growth. These buzzwords mislead indie founders. Last week, this poor guy asked a question here on...
  Tags: #growth
- [Mapping the Insights that Drive Startup Ideas & Theses](https://newsletter.sandhill.io/p/insights-that-drive-ideation) (link, newsletter.sandhill.io)
  A framework developed working backwards from the Mental Models for Ideation
- [What I Learned About Startups by Collecting 30,000 Data Points](https://alitamaseb.medium.com/what-i-learned-about-startups-by-collecting-30-000-data-points-f10657724b2a) (link, alitamaseb.medium.com)
  I spent 4 years conducting one of the largest studies on startups to understand what differentiated billion-dollar startups from failed…
- [Early Adopter Marketing – How startups get their first users](https://www.kevin-indig.com/blog/early-adopter-marketing-startups-get-first-users/) (link, kevin-indig.com)
  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.
- [How the MVPs of the billion dollar businesses got their first 1,000 customers](https://startupwin.kelsus.com/p/9-ways-to-gauge-market-demand-for?s=r) (link, startupwin.kelsus.com)
  And what happens when you skip that step