HeyJaredFounder Therapy
A weekly newsletter by Patrick Thompson, co-founder & CEO of Clarify. Honest reflections on the ups, downs, and in-betweens of startup and founder life.
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GTM is getting compressed (opens the original)
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👋 to the 4 new founders who subscribed in the past week. Forwarded this? Subscribe and join 425 founders getting their weekly dose of Founder Therapy.Subscribe nowWhen we started Iteratively, I thought we were building a PLG (product-led growth) company. In my head, the product would do a lot of the selling for us.In reality, every dollar of revenue we closed came from a customer call. We didn’t close a single deal through PLG. Pretty quickly, I had t
Think twice before starting a company (opens the original)
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👋 to the 3 new founders who subscribed in the past week. Forwarded this? Subscribe and join 421 founders getting their weekly dose of Founder Therapy.Subscribe nowI think more people should try to talk themselves out of starting a company.Andrew Peterson put it better when we had him on the podcast</spa
Don’t confuse shipping with success (opens the original)
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👋 to the 3 new founders who subscribed in the past week. Forwarded this? Subscribe and join 421 founders getting their weekly dose of Founder Therapy.Subscribe nowThere’s a pattern I’ve noticed at companies where a project can miss its goal and still somehow get talked about like a win.The campaign launched. The feature shipped. The team worked hard. Everyone celebrates the execution, even when the result itself wasn’t what anyone hoped for.I think of
Don't expect to get your business right on the first try (opens the original)
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👋 to the 2 new founders who subscribed in the past week. Forwarded this? Subscribe and join 418 founders getting their weekly dose of Founder Therapy.Subscribe nowA few weeks ago, we had Godard Abel, Co-Founder of G2 on The First Pitch.It was such a good conversation that I had to write a follow-up about it.When you look at <a h
Are off-sites worth it? (opens the original)
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👋 to the 4 new founders who subscribed in the past week. Forwarded this? Subscribe and join 416 founders getting their weekly dose of Founder Therapy.Subscribe nowWe just got back from a Clarify off-site, and every time we do one, I can’t help but think about how expensive they are (logistically and financially). Flights, hotels, food, and a week where everyone’s normal schedule gets rearranged add up quickly.<figur
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