Hector Chris

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Startups aren’t smaller big companies. They’re experiments searching for truth. If you focus on execution before discovery, you’ll execute yourself into failure. Search. Learn. Adapt. That’s the startup path to success.

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So what should you do as a founder? Forget 100-page business plans. Start with hypotheses. Talk to customers. Test and validate everything. Be ready to pivot fast. Search first. Scale later.

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In contrast, successful startups like IMVU did it right: Built a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Talked to customers early Pivoted when their first idea was wrong Iterated constantly based on real feedback They searched before they scaled

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One of the biggest startup failures, Webvan, scaled like a big company. $800M raised Mega warehouses built Delivery trucks purchased They assumed the market was ready. It wasn’t. They burned through cash without finding customers first.

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The correct mindset for a startup is this: You're a temporary organization On a mission To search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Not to build, launch, and hope. But to test, learn, and adapt.

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If you act like a big company too early (hiring sales teams, setting marketing budgets, scaling infrastructure)... You're building a machine for a market that might not even exist. That’s like building a rocket without knowing if the destination planet is real.

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Big companies are designed to execute a known business model. They have known customers. Known markets. Known products. Everything is predictable. Startups? Startups are searching for all of that. Nothing is certain yet.

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Most startups fail because they copy big companies. If you're building a startup, here's the brutal truth: You need to search, not execute. Here’s why — and how to avoid disaster: (Thread)

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@dwr.eth When schedule feature?

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3 Secs, That's all the time you have to tell us why we should give a f**k about you. In writing, you have 3 secs of reading time to convince us. For video marketing, we call it the 3 sec thumbnail. Learn to say more in a short time, but short enough to make me want more Gm

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But people will still buy that and call it Fashion 🙄

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You don’t grow your ARR by doing more. You grow by doing what only you can do—and delegating the rest. Avoid "I want it to be perfect, so I'll do it myself" If you don't have budget to hire A league players, start with B or C league professionals. Still gets the job done. GM

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Every level of business growth demands a new identity. The $10K/month version of you can’t lead the $100K/month version. Reinvent. Rebuild. Repeat. GM

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I strongly recommend as a web3 startup founder, you learn about web2 and web3 marketing. Even if you're a developer, not necessarily because you'll be incharge of marketing. That's your CMOs job. But so you can understand the importance of adequate budget for marketing efforts.

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It's still very difficult to be humble enough to admit, your months, if not years' worth of idea, is not working and it's time to save what's left and change direction.

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Depends. I'm a non Dev Founder, my cofounfer is a developer, I'm a marketer. I spend my days trying to convert web2 marketing methods to be usable I'm web3. When I'm not doing that, I'm in communities trying to get my desires target within the audience. Much more time consuming than emails, but more quality.

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Would be glad to hop on a call with you let's talk about where you are, and look at what the numbers say. I've been a marketer for 4yrs and I'm also a startup founder.

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Would be glad to hop on a call with you let's talk about where you are, and look at what the numbers say. I've been a marketer for 4yrs and I'm also a startup founder.

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Facts, don't lie to yourself. Don't undermine the what the numbers say. Especially as a startup founder, Test. Learn and Adapt. If you fail to adapt you'll join the graveyard of ideas.

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Very real, start building with the next wave of high network individuals.

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