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15 Second Startup: Unscalable Scale

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Hey Founder,

Do Things That Don't Scale
by Paul Graham, Founder of YC.

  • The most unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually.
  • You should take extraordinary measures not just to acquire users, but also to make them happy.
  • One should focus on quality of execution to a degree that in everyday life would be considered pathological.
  • Sometimes the right unscalable trick is to focus on a deliberately narrow market.
  • When you only have a small number of users, you can sometimes get away with doing by hand things that you plan to automate later.
  • The unscalable things you have to do to get started are not merely a necessary evil, but change the company permanently for the better.
  • StartUps want so much to seem big that they imitate even the flaws of big companies, like indifference to individual users.

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Have a great week.

James.

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15 Second StartUp

Every Wednesday, one highly actionable insight to help you build your StartUp faster. Curated by 3x Excited SaaS Founder James Sinclair​.