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John Danner

dunce.substack.com
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I write about early stage startups and PMF. 3x founder (NETG IPO), pre-seed investor, board member @LambdaSchool, investor/advisor @outschool and @mavenhq.

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Tweet Nov 6, 2021
When you start your company, you have a blank slate. You can build anything you want, talk to anyone you want. But most startups fail to build anything people need. Here's how to make sure you find the need:
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Tweet Nov 2, 2021
Silicon Valley has operated startups with the waterfall method for five decades. We have grand visions and act like a pivot is a mistake. That's wrong. Here's a story about how we tried 100 pivot-level ideas at my first company and found 4 or
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Tweet Sep 23, 2021
Founders are their own worst enemies when trying to find product market fit (PMF). Here are the five worst mistakes:
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Article Sep 10, 2021
Product Market Fit (PMF) and Series A+ disconnected earlier this year
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