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Marketing

Writing quality content can't be your startup's only marketing strategy. You need to focus equally or more on SEO & distribution.

- Hrishikesh
Marketing

1) Find relevant competitors for a specific channel or initiative. E.g. blogs that align with your startup's SEO goals 2) Reverse engineer what they do, put your unique take, and execute better. E.g. target keywords your competitors rank for

- Karthik Sridharan
Marketing

Marketing isn't just an area of your business — it is your business. No one cares about your product as much as you do, so it's up to you to go out & spread the word.

- Karthik Sridharan
Marketing

Provide value first, you'll get support when you need.

- Hrishikesh
Marketing

Organic channels >> Paid ads & launches

- Hrishikesh
Marketing

Distribution >> Creation

- Karthik Sridharan
Product

In the early stages of your startup, first focus on building a solution that works, NOT a product that scales.

- Karthik Sridharan
Product

As a non-tech founder, use NoCode to start a business. Code to scale it.

- Karthik Sridharan

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Once again you prove to be the best Karthik bro in terms of insights. "Concentrate on what you want to achieve or solve through your idea and not the tech" - Biggest lesson I have learnt by following you on Twitter.
Vigneshwaran
Founder
Before you startup, go read all the tweets of Karthik. You might not want to believe a few, but in the end you'll realize that he is right! He busts all the myths 😛. Good job @KarthikS2206!
Geetha Prabhu
Founder, Workflexi
Well, learning from the best is such a charm! was scouting some great resources for a few insightful research, i guess now i know which course to tinker with. kudos karthik!
Vivan
Founder
This is the advice you gave me 1.5 years ago and helped me so much 🔥
Dagobert Renouf
Founder
Great thread Karthik! Bookmarking this for future reference when I'm looking to start something else or to expand! Appreciate your knowledge bombs!
Royce Lee
Founder
You are the best Karthik. Your advice is so simple and with full clarity. Following your advice right now and I am sure i will find the answers 😁
Murali Narasimhan
Founder