Edric 🎩 on Warpcast

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Random founder tips from 1 yr of running vc-backed @paragraph: - stay lean and hire/spend carefully - ship very, very fast and very, very frequently - disregard competition and naysayers - PMs, designers, other non-eng roles generally not valuable in early stages - good customer support is underrated

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+1 from my side i would also add: prioritize finding something that people pay for and focus relentlessly on that, very easy to fall into a trap of building something without an actual demand for very long

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@edricnguyen.eth

Great sharing, but how did you finding something that people pay for?

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for my past company i haven't and we shut down for my next one you can see exactly what im doing now / will be doing over next weeks — experimenting and launching small things, as often as possible i will only consider going on one idea full time again if i find 20 paying users for a shit mvp

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generally i think this is spot on but there are some pretty amazing companies that required more than a little shit mvp for validation. The whole schelp blindness thing is kinda antithetical to the above. Stripe and most hardware companies are examples of companies hard to make shit mvps for.

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stripe literally launched with the most shitty mvp ever https://www.quora.com/What-did-the-first-version-of-Stripe-look-like-How-did-they-get-it-to-work-in-production-for-the-first-users

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@stringtheory69

but it took them months to get the banking stuff together

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@edricnguyen.eth

Do you think important thing is to address the user's issue that we are targeting properly?. Whether the product is complete or not depends on whether the problem to be solved requires completeness or just solving the problem is enough.

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@stringtheory69

you can probably get a sense for whether or not you are heading down the problem solving route without a full solution (maybe you just personally have the problem) also if you've fully solved the problem with your MVP then what will you keep doing everyday at work :)

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