Sahil Patel

We built a website where we share stories of how successful companies got their first users through unscalable tactics: https://www.dothingsthatdontscale.xyz/ We'd love to feature your story. Comment below with the unscalable thing you did to acquire your first users

Accelerators are a great way to get your startup idea off the ground. They provide mentorship, guidance, funding, and much more. However, finding the right program among thousands of options is time-consuming. To save you time, we've compiled a list of the top 100 accelerators worldwide. This list includes Links to learn more about each accelerator, details on their terms, info about the...

Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) recommends these 4 strategies to get your first 100 users 1. Use your network. Email people you already and ask them to be your customers. You can call in all the favours with anyone you can think of, someone you took a random class with, someone you were friends with in high school. You should, if it's a paid product, you should charge. This is important. Remember,...

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(On growth, hiring, legal, fundraising, or anything you found particularly useful) Here are some of my favourites: 1. 60 Ideas to boost your growth: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/turbo-boosts 2. 150+ Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups: https://pitchdeckhunt.com 3. Startup Playbook by Sam Altman: https://playbook.samaltman.com/ 4. YC's library of content:...

Steve Blank developed a helpful framework for articulating a product's Unique Value Proposition (UVP). Let's break it down: "We help (X) do (Y) by doing (Z)" X = Target customer Y = Problem they're facing Z = How we solve it for them At https://LearningLoop.com, our UVP is "we help founders make their best decisions by matching themselves with other ambitious founders" what's yours UVP?

i've been part of a couple of communities 1) producthunt.com (obvious) 2) genzvcs.com 3) learningloop.com 4) startupgrind.com 5) s11s.club what are some other communities? Looking to join some nice ones

1. Intuition isn't a spiritual, non-tangible thing. It's the highest form of competence. Therefore I should trust my intuition/gut 100% of them when I'm in my zone of genius and zone of competence (look these 2 zones up) 2. Every hire either accelerates a startup's growth or death. No employee has a neutral contribution. Before making a hire, we now ask ourselves "if I had only 3 months of...