**Twist of Market Fit**
Spencer Skates, co founder of Amplitude, accidentally built this startup!
Here is how it happened:
Sonalight - his initial startup for voice texting was failing, to study user retention & data analytics Spencer started build
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Hey I am on Medial • 10m
So many founders get stuck on their original vision and refuse to pivot, even when data shows the market pulling them in a different direction
Peter Thiel on Why Founders Should Rethink the Lean Startup Approach
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, has a critical view on the Lean Startup methodology.
While he acknowledges its benefits, he argues that modern founders may rely too heavily on
founders can't always be right ✅ while implementing their product. the users may use it differently too.. we should have guts or decision making skills to pivot ASAP!.
Eg:
A great example of this is Instagram:
When Instagram was first launched in
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Mehul Fanawala
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The Clueless Company • 8m
Prisha and Dishani were discussing startups.
Dishani asked,
Why do some startups fail, while others succeed?
Prisha replied,
It depends on various factors.
Let me share a small story.
Prisha continued,
There were two startups.
Both had a great pro
Why Every Startup Founder Needs an Annual Work Plan?
An annual work plan is essential for startup founders as it provides a clear roadmap to achieve goals.
1. Strategic Direction: It aligns short-term actions with long-term vision, helping founders
In execution-led business, the complexity comes when the business scales.
It is easy to build a great business in 2-3 cities, but replicating that in different cities in a challenge.
The cities where founders can visit regularly will be easy to sca
Founders, don’t overlook this!
If you're raising funds, having a well-structured Data Room is a game-changer. It shows investors you're professional, transparent, and ready to scale, making the due diligence process smoother and faster.
Here’s what
Hi everyone,
I have started helping startups and entrepreneurs achieve product-market fit (PMF) at a Fractional Cost & Time than traditional methods. Research shows that 34% of startups fail due to lack of direction, overengineering, and missing PMF
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SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 24d
College dropouts like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg might dominate Silicon Valley folklore, but India tells a different story:
Only 3 out of 211 Indian unicorn founders abandoned their degrees early. You're actually far more likely to find advanced
It's eye opening to see that, out of 1,263 unicorn founders, only 56 were dropouts (that’s just 4.4%).
Meanwhile:
- 485 had a Bachelor's
- 259 had a Master's
- 236 had an MBA
- 286 had a Doctorate
That means a PhD is 5x more common than a dropout a
Founders are fooling VCs and VCs are the dumb organisation with money as seen about unikon.ai , he was like I'll make unikon bigger than LinkedIn now pivoting, LinkedIn is 100x better for any professional connection when I was studying data science i