Notes from Essay : Do Things that don’t scale

The Startup News all around depict that : If your startup is not fast scaling, you are doomed. While the reality is — Startup is slow growing and sometimes seemingly slow growing growth.

Right now we are at a stage which is apt for the excellent article of Paul Graham. Pointers that might be useful for a founder ( our WIP todo’s)

1. Do things that don’t scale.
2. Startups Take off because Founders make them take off
3. Recruit users manually. Go and get users, they are not gonna come for you.
4. Make your product so easy, that setup can be done when someone says a yes.
5. Start with 2 customers and grow by 10% each week
6. #Airbnb, #Pinterest, #Stripe, #Wufoo and many more follow above approach
7. Make Initial Customers Happy. Don’t worry of they being individuals and don’t think of scale too early
8. Go for customers which need less hand-holding rather than those who pay more.
9. Pick a single user and act as if they were consultants building something just for that one user.
10. If you have to work hard to delight users when you only have a handful of them, you’ll keep doing it when you have a lot.

Our startup Livestorehub.com has made software so that people can talk on video chat with sales associates for:

- Products sales

- On-boarding

- Relationship management : cross selling etc…

Our startup is going through the on-boarding and Manually recruiting users phase and this essay is perfect for our company.

Please add if missed anything