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The Developer Facing Startup: Alchemist Accelerator’s go-to-market playbook for early-stage developer-facing startups

by Adam Frankl

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Avikalp Gupta said: " I've been building devtools startups for the last 3 years. I've had all the access to every startup resource from day 1 and even had funding. All the things that I've learned the hard way, I can see them laid out in a lucid manner in this book. And m ...more "

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

by Angela Duckworth (Goodreads Author)

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"The studies done by the author are interesting and their results, I can actually recall how the successful methods I've used in hiring actually correlate with her measurement of Grit.

But I don't like the cocky way she says "grit predicts this" without giving actual numbers. I mean, you must have correlation, but how strong is the correlation? Or how much stronger is the correlation compared to the other metrics?" — May 16, 2025 04:55AM

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The Psychology Of Selling: How To Sell More, Easier, and Faster Than you Ever Thought Possible

by Brian Tracy (Goodreads Author)

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"The last 20 pages were a bit obvious: focus on the customer, dress well, talk about utility over quality, talk about quality only in comparison with cheaper alternatives and translate that into value.

One insightful thing was: very few people want something completely new. So to a customer, talk about your tool as an improvement." — Apr 22, 2025 08:03PM

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“Stealth is a mistake Many early-stage startup founders want to keep their plans confidential in stealth mode. And that is a mistake. These founders fear their competition will hear about their plans and get a jump on them. They think their ideas are so good that people will drop what they are doing and start working on them. It doesn’t happen. If you and your competition are open source, how often do you check out your competitor's repos? Never? They don’t have time to check on yours either. And no one has devs on the bench waiting for a good idea.”
― Adam Frankl, The Developer Facing Startup: Alchemist Accelerator’s go-to-market playbook for early-stage developer-facing startups

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“Here is a quick summary of the four levels of marketing differentiation: First level: feature differentiation Second level: benefit differentiation Third level: customer segment differentiation Fourth level: problem differentiation”
― Adam Frankl, The Developer Facing Startup: Alchemist Accelerator’s go-to-market playbook for early-stage developer-facing startups

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“As counter-intuitive as it may sound, your goal as an early-stage startup is not to maximize revenue but to get to your next funding event.”
― Adam Frankl, The Developer Facing Startup: Alchemist Accelerator’s go-to-market playbook for early-stage developer-facing startups

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