Canonical · Startup Fundamentals · Essay
Do Things That Don't Scale
Paul Graham · 2013
"Early startups should manually recruit users and do unscalable work; growth comes from effort, not automation."
Paul Graham's definitive advice for early-stage startups: you cannot wait for users to naturally discover your product. Founders must manually, and sometimes painstakingly, recruit their first users one by one and do things that are structurally unscalable.
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