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A superuser is someone from the business side who is intimately familiar with both your customers' problems and how your product solves those problems.
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Investors give a startup a bunch of money to scale, they expect you to hire for critical roles, then they start asking why your burn rate is so high.
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I can tell you exactly how to build a better newsletter, as a standalone product startup or as a marketing campaign, by telling you why I set out not to build one.
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In startup, there's a huge difference between creating a culture of hard work and creating a culture of results. One is a path up, the other is a spinning wheel.
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Productivity gets sucked out of the company when this kind of meeting culture starts to replace teamwork, communication, and even actual work.
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B2X is more than just deciding to offer your product to anyone; it requires a product and sales strategy that can conform to multiple requirements and use cases.
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If you lean into the gig or creator economies too hard, you're going to get burned. It's just a matter of when and how much income is at stake.
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I've started reaching out to bring on more advisors. And I'm running into a problem. A lot of people who claim to be startup experts are condescending as hell.
Should your company pay existing customers to bring in new customers? It depends. Your business might create an army of angry amateur influencers.
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It seems obvious, but when your platform is the core of your startup, you're not building software for users, you're creating a product for customers.
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This is insight culled from the last 20 years of turning over a lot of stones to find every entrepreneurial edge for my startup.
If you're selling your new product to people you already know, you're setting your business up for death by a million false positives.
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There are too many un-taught, would-be successful entrepreneurs going through the startup growth stage walking that fine line of fear and boredom.
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All startups say they put the customer first, but their product development process usually undoes that promise. Let's fix that.
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