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Startups don't take off by themselves. Recruit the first users by hand and do the unscalable work that delights them.
Read the frameworkCo-founder of Y Combinator, essayist
Paul Graham started YC after doing a startup himself, and in YC's 21st year he still writes his talk for each batch from scratch. One advantage of YC he names is the YC GDP: whatever you make, you can sell it to the other startups in your batch. They are exactly the users you want, he says: early adopters who decide quickly.
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Startups don't take off by themselves. Recruit the first users by hand and do the unscalable work that delights them.
Read the frameworkPaul Graham
says startups do not take off by themselves, so you recruit your first users one by one, by hand, and do the unscalable work that delights them, the way Airbnb went door to door. The manual work is what teaches you what to build.
says distribution first, product second. When AI makes building nearly free the code is commoditised and the moat is an audience, so grow one to about a thousand people, ask them what they need, and build into a warm market.