Figuring Out • 1y
"Doing things that don't scale" refers to the practice of founders engaging in manual, labor-intensive tasks to acquire early customers and validate their ideas. Paul Graham of Y Combinator emphasizes that startups often need to perform unscalable actions—like personally delivering products or providing hands-on customer service—to learn from their initial users and refine their offerings. This approach helps founders understand their market better and build strong relationships, laying a solid foundation for future growth, even if it seems counterintuitive at first Perplexity said this. I'll find a good video and share that with u
Unfiltered and real ... • 11m
Topmate - The Scam. Singlehandedly ruined the image of Indian Startups last week. Here's what happened: They listed big people like Elon Musk, Paul Graham, Naval Ravikant, Mr beast on their website and promoted that as if its true. Here's the cra
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Unfiltered and real ... • 2m
"The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing." Paul Graham on how to get startup ideas: https://paulgra
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Building JalSeva and... • 1y
Day - 03 🔥 ( Summary) Topic :- Before the startup (Paul Graham) Paul Graham discusses the counterintuitive nature of startups, emphasizing the importance of intuition about people, understanding users, and the all-consuming nature of startup lif
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