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TARGETS Put half your efforts into getting traction. Pursue traction and product development in parallel, and spend equal time on both. Think of your product as a leaky bucket. Your early traction efforts are pointing you toward the holes worth plugging. Set your growth goals. Focus on strategies and tactics that can plausibly move the needle for y... See more

Today's "Web 2.0" method for growth is to forgo paying for marketing and instead create something so great that users distribute it.

Since Q2 2019, Gumroad has grown from $4M in annual revenue to $22M in revenue, and from break even to making $10M in profit a year. I’ve been documenting the journey with public board meetings you can watch on YouTube here–8 hours so far: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_DfN-mKCGNuswqERc6sIA8urYAKARc6s&si=40-j5imlZ_2Qxi3-... See more

This email from @sama was very special to receive in 2018 when I was starting my first venture and for that personal kindness I have a lot of respect for him 🙏 I know the future is bright for you and with you as our leader into AGI.

For each channel, you should identify one decent channel strategy that has a chance of moving the needle.

I believe the opportunity in search is not to attack Google head-on with a massive, one size fits all horizontal aggregator, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.