Paul Graham Quotes on Business
About Paul Graham
A computer scientist, writer and essayist, entrepreneur and investor. His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News.
Insight
In the very early stages of your startup, you should focus on doing tasks and activities that are highly manual, time-consuming, and personalized to get your first users and make them extremely happy.
Actionable Takeaways
- Actively Recruit Your First Users Manually.
- Deliver an "Insanely Great" Experience to Early Adopters.
- Embrace Unscalable Manual Efforts to Learn and Iterate.