Relay

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Welcome to Relay! Hi there! Welcome to Relay. We are so excited to have you here! :slightly_smiling_face: Ever since Jan 23rd, 2020, when EnjoyHQ’s co-founder, Sofia Quintero, drafted and shared her earnest notes on starting up, Relay…	1	3028	December 6, 2019
Designing Thoughtful Workweeks, Decisions, and Feedback at an Async-First Workplace with Panther’s Co-Founder, Matt Redler Heuristics and Hunches culture , working-remotely , operating-principles , founders-self , async	2	266	December 1, 2022
The Mechanics of Commercializing and Scaling an AI-First, B2B Startup with Thematic’s Co-Founder, Alyona Medelyan Heuristics and Hunches pmf , ai , product , mvp , capital-efficiency	2	294	November 21, 2022
Validating and Selling a Technically-Difficult Idea, Serving 2 Personas, Fundraising in a Tough SaaS Setting, and Working In-Person with Merge’s Co-Founder, Shensi Ding Heuristics and Hunches fundraising , hiring , pmf , founders-self	2	610	November 12, 2022
Evolving the Many-Sided Levers of Positioning and Expansion with Slite’s Co-Founder, Christophe Pasquier Heuristics and Hunches positioning , product-led-growth , product , competitive-markets	2	313	November 7, 2022
Aiming for a "Won-and-Done" Category, Acquiring a Newsletter before Making the Product Public, and The Merits of Being Async-First with Loops’ Co-Founder, Chris Frantz Heuristics and Hunches crowded-markets , working-remotely , operating-principles , product , async	2	196	October 19, 2022
Founder-Led Customer Success, Bringing in a Senior First Hire, and Other Early-Stage CS Lessons with Claap’s Head of Customer Success, Angela Guedes Heuristics and Hunches customer-research , operators-series , customer-success	1	231	October 3, 2022
I’m PJ Bouten, Co-Founder and former CEO of Showpad. I’d love to share my experience and lessons learned from scaling Showpad from zero to a global +€75M in ARR Business with this community! AMA AMAs fundraising , culture , hiring	24	752	September 26, 2022
Why You Shouldn’t Build for an Obviously Large Market, and Other Notes on Creating a “Default Possible” Startup with Pulley’s Co-Founder, Yin Wu Heuristics and Hunches fundraising , hiring , product , gtm	1	162	September 23, 2022
The Why Behind 78 Pre-Product User Interviews, The Difference Between Pitching and Research, and Why MVPs Don’t Work Anymore with Cord’s Co-Founder, Nimrod Priell Heuristics and Hunches customer-research , product , mvp	2	670	September 11, 2022
Int’l sales tax compliance -- What service to use?	0	106	August 31, 2022
“How Moving Away from Per-User Pricing Helped us 4X our Growth, Why We Were Moving Back, and Why We Won’t (For Now)” with Tability’s Co-Founder, Sten Pittet Heuristics and Hunches pricing , categories , product	10	531	August 28, 2022
Iterating Minimum Viable Funnels, Evolving Freemium for Reach and Focus, and Other Growth Lessons with Sendspark’s Co-Founder, Bethany Stachenfeld Heuristics and Hunches growth , operating-principles , freemium , experimentation	2	281	August 10, 2022
Bringing Early Adopters on to the Cap Table, Being COOs of Potential Users, and Other Community-First Ways of Building with Passionfroot’s Co-Founder, Jennifer Phan Heuristics and Hunches pmf , operating-principles , community	2	237	August 9, 2022
Ignoring MRR for the Self-Serve Switch, “Dogfood upon Dogfood upon Dogfood,” and other Lessons in Breaking out of Constraints with Lately AI’s Co-Founder, Kate Bradley Chernis Heuristics and Hunches customer-centricity , culture , product-led-growth , founders-self	2	917	July 26, 2022
Early stage startups and mental health Heuristics and Hunches founders-self	5	516	July 12, 2022
Technical part of downgrading SaaS - Need Help! What Am I Missing bootstrapping	3	475	July 10, 2022
(Calmly) Competing Against HubSpot and Mailchimp as a One-Person Team with Bento’s Founder, Jesse Hanley Heuristics and Hunches bootstrapping , operating-principles , founders-self , product	4	855	June 27, 2022
“How We Deleted a 1/3rd of Our Product and Made it 10x Better” with Arrows’ co-founder, Daniel Zarick Heuristics and Hunches customer-centricity , operating-principles , product	4	954	June 22, 2022
Things That Matter During Any Crisis, Developing a Combination of Muscle Memory and Scar Tissue, and Other Earnest Founder Missives to Probe the Current SaaS Moment Heuristics and Hunches operating-principles , founders-self	0	380	June 9, 2022
Adopting the Collaborative Operating System, Confronting a Common Leadership Error, and Fixing the “Untrained Muscle” of Alignment with Plum’s Co-Founder, Caitlin MacGregor Heuristics and Hunches culture , operating-principles , founders-self	2	1060	June 7, 2022
Hey-oh! 🤠 I'm Josh Founder CEO of Referral Rock AMA AMAs bootstrapping , customer-centricity , culture , hiring , working-remotely , operating-principles	33	1051	June 3, 2022
Why You Don’t Need to be “Enterprise-Ready” or “Scalable” as Yet and Other Notes on Crafting B2B Software with Contenda’s Founder, Lilly Chen Heuristics and Hunches culture , scaling , product , engineering , enterprise	3	18469	May 26, 2022
Pivoting Despite PMF, Why You Don’t Need Top Talent across Functions, and Other People-first Insights with Eduflow’s Co-Founder, David Kofoed Wind Heuristics and Hunches hiring , pivots , pmf , operating-principles	2	549	May 17, 2022
Taking on Zoom by Targeting a Beachhead Market, Pricing as a PMF Filter, and Other Lessons in Early Traction with Butter’s Co-Founder, Jakob Knutzen Heuristics and Hunches founder-market-fit , pricing , pmf , competitive-markets	1	538	May 6, 2022
Setting up Finance as an Impact Multiplier, Defining Your Own Metrics for Success, and Other Strategic Lessons from Knak’s Head of Finance, Christopher Chan Heuristics and Hunches operating-principles , operators-series , finance	0	489	April 28, 2022
Setting Up Engineering for Growth: The Workflows and Culture That Drove 1500% YoY Growth with Tara AI’s Co-Founder, Iba Masood Heuristics and Hunches growth , operating-principles , product , engineering	3	2063	April 27, 2022
Reexamining the Revered Superhuman Onboarding, and Other Product-First Lessons in Scaling SaaS with Sunsama’s Founder, Ashutosh Priyadarshy Heuristics and Hunches pricing , operating-principles , founders-self , product	2	1018	April 25, 2022
I'm Aye Moah, CEO and Co-founder of Boomerang. AMA about building a profitable, bootstrapped category-creating company AMAs bootstrapping , co-founders , product-led-growth , operating-principles , founders-self	26	1455	April 13, 2022
Choosing the Kano Model over the RICE Framework and Other Discoveries in “Building for User Love” with Scribe’s Co-Founder, Jennifer Smith Heuristics and Hunches customer-centricity , operating-principles , product	2	386	April 11, 2022

Welcome to Relay!

Hi there! Welcome to Relay. We are so excited to have you here! :slightly_smiling_face: Ever since Jan 23rd, 2020, when EnjoyHQ’s co-founder, Sofia Quintero, drafted and shared her earnest notes on starting up, Relay…