Founders: Focus on What Matters Most for Startup Success

Founders, focus on what truly matters! Learn why prioritizing the right stages of your startup journey is crucial. Discover why adding new features won't help if you lack traffic or conversions. Optimize your efforts for maximum impact and growth.

Founders: Focus on What Matters Most for Startup Success
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For founders one of the toughest things is to focus on doing the right things.
  • If nobody knows about your product, then it is irrelevant whether you add that new "killer" feature.
  • Focus everything on the stage that will impact you most.
  • There's no point optimizing for conversion if you don't have traffic.
  • There's no point in creating a world-class onboarding flow if people aren't converting.
  • There's no point creating that amazing new feature if people aren't activating.
It's hard, it's something I struggle with as I just want to make an awesome product, but it is the business version of "if a tree falls in the woods..."
"If a feature will wow a user, but there are no users to see it, did it ever impress them?"

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Mike Heap
Mike Heap

Mike is an experienced Product Manager who focuses on all the “non-development” areas of My AskAI, from finance and customer success to product design, copywriting, testing and more.

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