In my opinion, the startup scene is not evenly supported, and some countries are not so passionate about business. I'm from Central Europe, and I don't feel any extra entrepreneurial spirit here. From my observations, countries like France, and Germany (maybe Poland) have always been mainly startup-oriented.
In terms of more favourable taxes for entrepreneurs, Cyprus and Estonia came to mind.
But maybe I'm wrong and I'm overlooking local communities.
Two of my favorites are: "Rome wasn't built in a day, but they laid bricks every hour." Had a launch day that didn't go as well as I'd hoped. But this quote has been bouncing around in my head, reminding me that constant and focused work will get me there. No matter how small. "Three foot world."
The only things I can control are within the three feet in front of me, so that's all thats worth my time.
I shut down a project last month that I d been working on for about eight months. It had a handful of paying users, a few nice messages, and growth that basically flatlined after the first launch spike. The weird part is I probably knew it wasn t working around month four. I just kept telling myself one more feature would fix it.
Talking to other makers, I ve noticed two camps:
People who give something 90 days, check the numbers, and move on without much drama.
People (like me) who hang on way too long because quitting feels like admitting the idea was bad.
@Paste just launched their latest version, and tbh I'm considering switching over but I'm curious to hear what other people use? I know @Raycast has a pretty powerful and integrated one that I'm considering using. I currently use @ Pasta which I love. Do folks have any they recommend? What's the consensus?
Throughout the years in marketing, I ve witnessed many different approaches to how people use social media to sell a product (or themselves).
It always depends on the final customer; I can clearly see that companies usually bet on a few things:
their personal brand (often LinkedIn and X, e.g. Levelsio and Marc Lou for B2B, or Instagram in the case of influencers and their products) purely paid ads (across Meta e.g. minimalist phone, where there is almost no organic content) community-driven growth (Discord, Reddit, Facebook groups, Slack communities, etc.)
I guess that when you're pre-revenue, AI tools and the occasional freelancer are often more than enough to get an MVP out the door and test the waters.
But eventually, every growing product hits an inflection point where "good enough" visuals and quick-and-dirty copy start holding back growth. To build real authority and category leadership, a curated identity becomes important.
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