Oliver Kraftman

Hey Sahil, do you think the billion-dollar-or-bust pressure comes from the businesses that people choose to work on that makes them need huge scale to succeed? Or rather a belief in the founders that that's what all successful startups looks like?

Subscribed to Mason - could be v useful for me :) I'm working on https://www.collate.org/ - welcome on our Beta when we're at your stage!!

Very specific to our product (collate.org), but we are running student writing competitions, which allows us to: - Attract high profile relevant twitter users to judge the comp (they love helping students win prizes) - who will then share our profile/follow us and hopefully do so again in the future. - Leverage the students who enter to share their content/and us on their own socials. i.e....

It's also great as a first version of a product because of it's speed and cost-effectiveness compared to full-stack bespoke development, so even if you have to throw it away, still makes sense as a tool for getting a product in front of users ASAP. Opening up tech entrepreneurship to more people :) We're using Bubble for our app at collate.org and it's coming together nicely. Can't wait to...

Nice thread. Good luck all! I'm building a platform for leaders to engage in-depth with the public, away from the chaos of social media, and give us more access to learn from/scrutinise them... no hiding behind soundbites. Our landing page is at https://collate.org

Hey Julia. Amazing work. I've upvoted... good luck with everything!

Feel a constant pressure on myself/anxiety to work more hours, but know that I need downtime to be most productive and slowly learning to go easier on myself. Psychology of entrepreneurship is wild....