Had a fantastic call with @wwshaef from @knowablefyi 🙏🏽 I had the privilege to give him a walkthrough for @shoutoutso_ and seek his advice on being a first-time founder!
For curious folks, this is what he said: Have laser focus on growth and talk to your customers consistently!
Just so we’re all clear @wwshaef is a straight up G for posting this thread. His product @knowablefyi is best in class. This company building thing is hard. Respect.
Here are a couple more:
Create an amazing product
Understand your users really well
Become ramen profitable
Spend more time talking to users than investors
Saw an interesting tweet from @wwshaef about this quick webinar on Improv. Thought it would help me in a bunch of different areas for my own business and now hearing all the applications for fundraising too!
Will live tweet some nuggets
is the smartest, most decent founder I know. This is incredibly impressive candor. He and his team @knowablefyi will build something great...I don’t doubt it for one second
And I DEFINITELY want @wwshaef and @knowablefyi to succeed.
Like I want them to succeed probably more than I want us to succeed lol. And he's doing it. He's building.
Some People from the valley don't play zero-sum games.
The E-Learning (E2E) market is $8T.
The benefits of building in public are clear. But let’s also normalize being open with what is happening in the under belly of startup building and the challenges along the way.
Kudos to @wwshaef for sharing this important thread.