About the Heuristics and Hunches category
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0
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319
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February 18, 2021
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"No One is Coming to Save Us," The "Need to Reestablish PMF," and Other Earnest Founder Commits for 2023
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0
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516
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January 31, 2023
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SaaS Founders at Work '22 Edition: 42 Inspiring Heuristics and Hunches from 194 Years of Building
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1
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530
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January 22, 2023
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Finding (and Navigating) the Middle Ground Between a Hypergrowth Startup and a Lifestyle Business with Sudowrite’s Co-Founder, Amit Gupta
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2
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290
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January 12, 2023
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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
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493
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June 9, 2022
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Growing Sustainably, a Realistic Take on the Current Moment in Tech, and Lessons from Grab with Momos’ Co-Founder, Andrew Liu
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1
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414
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December 12, 2022
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Designing Thoughtful Workweeks, Decisions, and Feedback at an Async-First Workplace with Panther’s Co-Founder, Matt Redler
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2
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448
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December 1, 2022
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The Mechanics of Commercializing and Scaling an AI-First, B2B Startup with Thematic’s Co-Founder, Alyona Medelyan
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2
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418
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November 21, 2022
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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
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2
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748
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November 12, 2022
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Evolving the Many-Sided Levers of Positioning and Expansion with Slite’s Co-Founder, Christophe Pasquier
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2
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389
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November 7, 2022
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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
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2
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308
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October 19, 2022
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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
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1
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305
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October 3, 2022
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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
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1
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248
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September 23, 2022
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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
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2
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818
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September 11, 2022
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“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
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10
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637
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August 28, 2022
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Iterating Minimum Viable Funnels, Evolving Freemium for Reach and Focus, and Other Growth Lessons with Sendspark’s Co-Founder, Bethany Stachenfeld
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2
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351
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August 10, 2022
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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
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2
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315
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August 9, 2022
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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
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2
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998
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July 26, 2022
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Early stage startups and mental health
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5
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586
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July 12, 2022
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(Calmly) Competing Against HubSpot and Mailchimp as a One-Person Team with Bento’s Founder, Jesse Hanley
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4
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957
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June 27, 2022
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“How We Deleted a 1/3rd of Our Product and Made it 10x Better” with Arrows’ co-founder, Daniel Zarick
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4
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1103
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June 22, 2022
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Adopting the Collaborative Operating System, Confronting a Common Leadership Error, and Fixing the “Untrained Muscle” of Alignment with Plum’s Co-Founder, Caitlin MacGregor
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2
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1159
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June 7, 2022
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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
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3
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18753
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May 26, 2022
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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
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2
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642
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May 17, 2022
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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
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1
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650
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May 6, 2022
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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
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0
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563
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April 28, 2022
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Setting Up Engineering for Growth: The Workflows and Culture That Drove 1500% YoY Growth with Tara AI’s Co-Founder, Iba Masood
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3
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2161
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April 27, 2022
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Reexamining the Revered Superhuman Onboarding, and Other Product-First Lessons in Scaling SaaS with Sunsama’s Founder, Ashutosh Priyadarshy
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2
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1136
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April 25, 2022
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Choosing the Kano Model over the RICE Framework and Other Discoveries in “Building for User Love” with Scribe’s Co-Founder, Jennifer Smith
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2
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444
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April 11, 2022
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“Think of Bootstrapping as a Tool, Not as a Way of Life” and Other Perceptive Observations On Transitioning to the VC Path with MagicBell’s Co-Founder, Hana Mohan
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3
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1461
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April 7, 2022
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