🔀 The "just get users first" trap
This week in The Pivot: when you say you want to get users first before you start charging, what we hear is you're gonna build a hobby first, and figure out how to turn it into a business later.
Read moreWe’re a bespoke team of entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives who got together to do one thing: facilitate the launch of scale of world-changing innovations.
We spend our days collaborating with the coolest people we know: fellow innovators.
Our team works with startup founders, venture capital funds, accelerators, incubators, universities, economic development groups, and large enterprises to help them discover the right problems to solve, define the most impactful solutions, and test it all with real customers.
At The Right Box, we run rapid design sprints to facilitate innovation, from idea to product-market fit. We run a battle-tested, iterative process to launch & scale products with that magical combination of desirability, viability, and feasibility.
We can’t tell you what the right thing to think is, but we’re damn sure going to make you think about the right things.
Because neither are you. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have crazy fun doing what we love. These are the principles that guide us:
We run multiple newsletters for innovators, including Traction Thinking and Founding with AI, and co-host the podcast Zero to Traction. Here are some recent things we’ve said:
This week in The Pivot: when you say you want to get users first before you start charging, what we hear is you're gonna build a hobby first, and figure out how to turn it into a business later.
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Read moreWherein we break down three startups to show you the difference between vanity metrics and real traction—and why "we're not focused on revenue yet" is startup for "check out my cool hobby."
Read moreThis week in The Pivot: when a potential customer says "X controls the budget", or "you need to integrate with Y", how can you tell if it's areal obstacle—or just a polite exit?
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