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You are 100 conversations away from product-market fit. Weekly field guides on finding, running, and interpreting the conversations that build a company: discovery, sales, and fundraising. From a recovering founder, venture coach and VC for NYU
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AI didn’t make first-time founders smarter. It made them faster at being wrong. (opens the original)
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I keep watching this play out at NYU. A technical founder builds a real product in a matter of days. Marketplace app built over the weekend, a productivity tool vibe coded in a few hours, a free app that gets downloads. They even get a few early payments, which- to them feels like proof that this is working.Then a few weeks pass and the numbers tell a different story. The users don’t come back.100 Conversations is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work,
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