Founders

Folks who have left their fulltime jobs to become fulltime founders, why and how?

🕯️They/them. Scaled cos from 0-$300k in arr, 7-35 employees, 0-100k users. Now I make beautiful, functional, and ethically made candles at humankind.place

Why: felt like I hit a ceiling at my fulltime job, have always been very passionate about startups/side projects, wanted to do something more meaningful and with more impact

How: hacked away during nights and weekends, got a lot of traction/users/inbound investor interest, quit and raised funding

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, ceo /mirror, previously at Google & Coinbase 

Building Astro | Researching | Ex-DeFi Lead @Copper.co 

Early Traction: same thing that any ultra early stage startup does - reach out to users, post online, onboard folks manually, etc 

Knowing what was fundable: more of an art than science. Metrics all up and to the right, early revenue, promising vision, etc was enough

How did you go about getting traction and knowing what was enough for investors to fund? 

Two questions haha

Awesome. Did you raise while still having your job?

Hey Colin, how does a lot of traction / users looks like in this space?

Congrats again on your journey x product!

Is this the story of how Paragraph was born?