Do Things That Don't Scale Examples
A collection of examples of Paul Graham's "Do Things That Don't Scale" advice.
Collection by Dominik Grolimund
Paul Graham
Do Things that Don't Scale
16+ min · · July 2013One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build… · Shared by 1631, including Zain Fathoni, Leo Polovets, designshard, Swebliss, Data Science Renee, Gabriele, Kevan Lee 👋, Herbert Bay, Mark Kaigwa, Luca Hammer, Spencer Fry, Gibson Biddle, fernand0, Will Critchlow, hiten.eth, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Taylor Pearson, Rodrigo Prior, David Luescher
Y Combinator
YC’s Essential Startup Advice
7 min · · A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at YC consider the most… · Shared by 512, including Nicolas Berg, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Victor Lee, Ryan Hoover, Scott Williams, Johannes Lenz, Ward Plunet, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, Philip Stehlik, Dominik Grolimund, Kunal Bhatia, Reto Laemmler, Chris Calo, Danny Prol, Oleg Baskov, Andreas Fischler, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Dez S. Papp, Brandon Uttley
startupschool.org
How to Plan an MVP
· YC CEO and Partner Michael Seibel shares his approach to building an MVP and getting your first users as a pre-launch startup. · Shared by 119, including Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Dominik Grolimund
Fast Company
How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don't Scale
5 min · · So you need a crowd to launch to. Here's the way we got one. · Shared by 106, including Tom Connor, Dominik Grolimund, Ricky Yean, Gabriele, Ryan Hoover, Thomas Power, hiten.eth, mary elisabeth, Niklaus Gerber, Chris Messina
dothingsthatdontscale.com
a collection of unscalable startup hacks crowdsourced from founders
1 min · · All B2B B2C SaaS Unicorn Hardware VC Funded Bootstrapped · Shared by 42, including Thomas Kaul, L. Taylor Banks, Atul Pradhananga, Dominik Grolimund, Bernhard Huessy, Niklaus Gerber
Y Combinator
The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make
· Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on the biggest mistakes first-time founders make. · Shared by 40, including Stefan Weber, Marin Lorant, 瑞拿頭, Dominik Grolimund
medium.com
How to Scale a Magical Experience: 4 Lessons from Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
6 min · · Over the last 20 years, I’ve worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. And just about every… · Shared by 37, including Tom Connor, Kunal Bhatia, Dominik Grolimund
Groove
How We Got 2,000+ Customers by Doing Things That Didn’t Scale
7 min · · Some of our growth tactics will never scale. Here’s why we’re okay with that… · Shared by 37, including Dominik Grolimund, cbz, Courtney Bolton ★, Startupxplore, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
First Round
How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business
5 min · · Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia talks about the true meaning of being scrappy and being willing to do things that don't scale. · Shared by 30, including Dave, Dave de Céspedes, Dominik Grolimund
marketingexamples.com
How Nike sold its first 50,000 shoes
3 min · · The story of how Phil Knight and Jeff Johnson drove to track meets all over the Pacific Northwest and sold more shoes than you can imagine out of the boots of their car. · Shared by 24, including Dominik Grolimund, Clemens, Marco Unternaehrer
Sam Altman
How to Start a Startup: Lecture 8: Doing Things That Don't Scale
· Walker Williams Follow @walkerteespring , View Walker's Slide Deck. Justin Kan Follow @justinkan , View Justin's Slide Deck. Stanley Tang Follow @stanleytang , View Stanley's Slide Deck. · Shared by 24, including Bernhard Huessy, Dominik Grolimund
The StartUp
How to Do Things That Don’t Scale
6 min · · Some practical lessons for growing and scaling your early stage startup · Shared by 17, including Oleg Baskov, Dominic Huang, Dominik Grolimund
Entrepreneur
LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: To Scale, Do Things That Don't Scale
3 min · · To kick-off the new podcast, 'Masters of Scale,' Reid Hoffman chats with the co-founder of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, on creating the perfect experience for a handful of customers. · Shared by 17, including Ron McIntyre, Thomas Power, Clemens M. Schuster, Dominik Grolimund
Forbes
Why 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Doesn't Always Work
3 min · · Having ideas for scaling is crucial for justifying doing things that don't scale initially. Last month, Paul Graham wrote a great essay on why startups should "Do Things That Don't Scale"- essentially… · Shared by 16, including Bernhard Huessy, Dominik Grolimund
Inc.
Paul Graham: 'Do Things That Don't Scale'
2 min · · Don't have a big launch and keep an eye on your market, explains the Y Combinator co-founder. · Shared by 9, including Dominik Grolimund
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
DO THINGS THAT DON’T SCALE: 4 Inspirational Startup Examples
7 min · · Have an idea that you haven’t been able to kick-off? Early stage founder thinking of the big league before you start? Here’s some… · Shared by 9, including Dominik Grolimund