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Nat Emodi
@emodi
From experience, some things startups waste (a lot of) money on: - Legal costs (fine line here) - PR firms - Enterprise SaaS - Event sponsorships - Brand & marketing agencies What else?
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ravi 🎩
@ravi
Do you know the typical spend on brand agencies?
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Alex Loukissas 🍉
@futureartist
Expensive engineer hours trying to make their product (or code) look nice before PMF.
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
Startups waste the most money on not solving a real problem. Not listening to customers, and not building something of value for them.
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Renee Bigelow
@reneeb
Clarification- PR before newsworthy and before you can handle capacity = waste. Basic Brand Identity = good spend While massive early branding campaigns = waste. Ad agency (just tiny part of marketing) too early before PMF and have built a good experience = waste. Building good brand experience = good spend.
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Tim O’Shea
@timothyoshea
Hiring too many people before they really need them
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Aman Dhesi
@aman
Someone said this to me and it stuck: "founders think they're time-rich and money-poor but they're actually time-poor and money-rich so as far as possible trade money for time at the early stages"
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
revenue growth
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Krish Chelikavada
@thecskc
outsourcing sales
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Kiren Srinivasan
@kiren
HR-related tools! Not the tools themselves, but more so optimization around costs
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Alex Palmer
@thatalexpalmer.eth
+ Paid social marketing (only makes sense to do at certain scale)
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@jc
- Empire building (overhiring) - Bad hires (can sink a ship)
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Stephen
@stephenlacy
What startups should spend more on: Sales (after/during PMF)
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