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One founder sees a company. Another sees a college project. Both can be equally excited on day one.
Ask what each person can commit to in a busy week, before you build a plan around everyone’s free time.
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Ask what each person can commit to in a busy week, before you build a plan around everyone’s free time.
3f.vc/article/what-k…
www.3f.vc What Kills Most Student-Built Startups? Why mismatched expectations, graduation plans and placements can stall student startups, and how an eight-week experiment can help founders decide what to do next. Placements can turn a two-week break into the end of a student startup.
Before debating who’ll go full-time, agree on what you can prove together in eight weeks.
3f.vc/article/what-k…
Before debating who’ll go full-time, agree on what you can prove together in eight weeks.
3f.vc/article/what-k…
www.3f.vc What Kills Most Student-Built Startups? Why mismatched expectations, graduation plans and placements can stall student startups, and how an eight-week experiment can help founders decide what to do next. What’s the last feature you built because a user needed it?
If you can’t remember, speak to a few users before planning the next release. You might discover that the feature you almost ignored is the reason people come back.
3f.vc/article/when-i…
If you can’t remember, speak to a few users before planning the next release. You might discover that the feature you almost ignored is the reason people come back.
3f.vc/article/when-i…
www.3f.vc When Is It Time to Get Off Your Terminal and Find Users? Five questions to help software founders recognise when building has become a substitute for finding users, and why compliments matter less than real use. A CEO liked your pitch. A CTO called the technology impressive. An investor said it could be huge.
Have any of them used it?
Someone important liking your idea is not the same as someone needing your product.
3f.vc/article/when-i…
Have any of them used it?
Someone important liking your idea is not the same as someone needing your product.
3f.vc/article/when-i…
www.3f.vc When Is It Time to Get Off Your Terminal and Find Users? Five questions to help software founders recognise when building has become a substitute for finding users, and why compliments matter less than real use.