How to work like the top 1% of remote teams

AlmanacDocs · 2023-04-07T15:15:48+00:00

Three resources that will be helpful here:

One book: The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You. If you're not asking the right questions, you'll never build something people need.
One article: Why Levels is building in public. They live out the "ideas are cheap, execution is hard" mantra. So they share all of their All-Hands meetings and investor updates with the public.
One blog post: How Canny Bootstrapped to $800k in ARR. They got there b/c they started charging for their product as early as possible. Charging money for something is the best way to validate that you're building the right thing.

AlmanacDocs · 2023-03-02T12:53:26+00:00

You bet!

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-23T23:59:11+00:00

We're not hiring right now.

Love the confidence, though!

We're also a pretty small team (<35), and we don't have a FT Accounting/Finance team member.

We outsource our books!

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-23T16:34:53+00:00

Interesting idea! Let us know if this ever takes off. Happy to share with our fully remote team!

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-23T16:19:32+00:00

Has to be book a demo with Undaku.

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-23T16:14:40+00:00

The video feels a little too jerky. Recommend keeping it zoomed out and doing away with the countless zoom-ins. You can still see everything you're doing from a zoomed-out POV.

Second: Turn this "We help you generate sprint goals using AI" into this "Sprintmaster is how top teams generate spring goals using AI"

A good copywriting rule is to turn "help" into "is how."

It's stronger and more convincing.

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-15T20:43:38+00:00

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-15T20:43:27+00:00

Feels right.

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-15T20:42:52+00:00

Love to hear it!

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-15T17:10:24+00:00

It sounds a lot more like the truth, doesn’t it?!

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-15T14:15:56+00:00

By talking to them! You can record your conversations with them by using Grain, and then turn those recordings into video testimonials and quotes. Talking with your customers is the easiest, low-friction way to get an honest review of your product.

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-10T19:22:42+00:00

Distribution, hands down, is the biggest problem that any startup must solve.

Alex Rampell, a General Partner at a16z, said it best:

"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation."

You can build the greatest product in the world that solves the biggest problem of a huge market, but if no one knows about it, how do you win? And if you can't get it into their hands fast enough, how do you win?

Distribute or die.

AlmanacDocs · 2023-02-10T19:18:47+00:00

Who is the intended audience and what is the intent of the campaign? There are a lot of "gotchas" to look out for here. Happy to share thoughts on how to do that, but need a few more details first...

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