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Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
The other 70% is debugging, optimizing, creating an installer, writing documentation, building a sales website, opening a merchant account, advertising, promoting, processing sales, providing support, and a hundred other things we’ll dive into in later modules. Some of it is great fun…other parts, not so much.
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
The classic way to burn through cash is by hiring a lot of people.
This bites you twice: in addition to increasing your costs, it slows
you down—so money that's getting consumed faster has to last
longer. Most hackers understand why that happens; Fred Brooks
explained it in The Mythical Man-Month.We have three general suggestions about hiring: (a) don'... See more
This bites you twice: in addition to increasing your costs, it slows
you down—so money that's getting consumed faster has to last
longer. Most hackers understand why that happens; Fred Brooks
explained it in The Mythical Man-Month.We have three general suggestions about hiring: (a) don'... See more
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
2. Go where your target users are online.Key question: Who are your early target users, and where are they currently congregating online? Hacker News was the answer for Dropbox.
Lenny Rachitsky • How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
Taste for Makers
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For a lot of entrepreneurs, they see something and they say, "I have to have this," and that will start them building their own.
Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The "80/20 principle" for founders
Traction: 80% distribution, 20% product
Growth: 80% retention, 20% acquisition
Revenue: 80% existing customers, 20% new leads
Pricing experiments: 80% positioning tweaks, 20% actual price changes
Brand building: 80% customer experience, 20% logo design
Sales: 80% listening, 20% pitching
Community building: 80% empowering... See more
Traction: 80% distribution, 20% product
Growth: 80% retention, 20% acquisition
Revenue: 80% existing customers, 20% new leads
Pricing experiments: 80% positioning tweaks, 20% actual price changes
Brand building: 80% customer experience, 20% logo design
Sales: 80% listening, 20% pitching
Community building: 80% empowering... See more