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A startup can brute force its way to $1M ARR by convincing people, but that always stalls out.
Their wordsYou can brute force your way to a million ARR. I've seen a bunch of startups do it. with close rates of 10 to 20%, and it's kind of all founder twisting arm, all begging, but you're convincing people to buy and then you have to convince them to not churn and it just always stalls out.
Their wordsthey always start with this kind of product vision, they start with this. And it always comes from a good place. It's always well-researched. It's always super logical, makes a ton of sense. And in order to succeed, they almost always have to unfold based on what they learn on the demand side
Their wordsit is interesting to see how things can be, make total logical sense, be totally reasonable, even be backed by experimental data and be wrong.