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**Day 28: Your First 100 Users Matter More Than 10,000** 🧪👥 On Day 28 of the #FounderJourney, here’s something I remind myself often: **The first 100 users teach you more than the next 10,000 ever will.** These early users are gold. ✅ They give

Why your startup isn’t growing — even though you’re working 16 hours a day 🔥 Every founder hits this moment. You’re building non-stop. Barely sleeping. Doing sales, product, marketing — all at once. But the numbers? Flat. Cold. Silent. It feel

Your MVP isn’t minimum viable. It’s barely breathing. Here’s how to know: You manually check if cron jobs ran. You panic every time Stripe sends a webhook. You copy-paste user data from Airtable to Notion. Your “error handling” is: refresh and p

We all know the loud unicorns; the ones making headlines with every funding round. But what about the Silent Unicorns? The billion-dollar startups you’ve never heard of. • They don’t do PR. • They don’t chase hype. • They don’t care about being on

Most early-stage founders don’t need a VC. They need this. You actually need 100 users who’d scream if your product disappeared. So for all idea-stage founders: 👉 Validate the pain first. 👉 Then validate your insight. 👉 Then test your way to 10

A quick short read one should must explore. Purpose: To build enduring, compounding business value ("Power" = sustainable differential advantage). Few build Power while other chase growth. #Hamilton Helmer breaks it down into 7 defensible advanta

I once had a mentor tell me, “Success is just a series of tiny, unsexy actions, repeated over time.” He wasn't wrong. Too often, we chase the big, flashy wins. We scroll through LinkedIn, searching for instant fame, partnerships, and milestones.

A simple thing I advise early-stage founders on: —> Stage —> Strategy —> Source 1) Stage - What stage are you really at? Idea, MVP, early traction, PMF? 2) Strategy - Do you need capital to survive or to scale? Different answers, different risks.

Growth Looks Sexy. But It’s Often a Distraction 🔥 Here’s a dirty little truth of startup land: Most startups don’t die because of competition. They die because they scaled too fast. → Burned cash on ads → Hired too many people → Built features n

᠅ Founder Tip: Why you should talk to 100 users before raising a rupee Most founders chase funding before feedback. Bad move. Here’s why talking to 100 real users before raising money changes the game: 1. You discover what people actually want You