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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

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

I agree on everything but the designer point. 

It is very easy to underrate the compounding returns of a distinct and simple design language. A great one should help you build less.

building /precog 🪼
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Monk at buildermonastery.com

Less so in that context probably. But I don’t have experience in that type of pure developer product so don’t know.

You think this applies even for non-UI products? 

In Zora's case the SDK for example.

Agree with you that it compounds overtime but I remember the first interaction of zora and, respectfully, it wasn’t v pretty. That being said it solved a problem and allowed you to get PMF and raise more to be able to hire the amazing designers you have hired!

I think it’d rather allow to build far more and have an effortless sense to the execution.