Don't make the mistake of being a 1-way-transactional founder/builder during your prelaunch

Unfortunately it's a flaw in human nature to sometimes (not always) be 1-way-transactional.

What is 1-way-transactional?

? It is when the person is only interested in personal gain and not interested in mutually beneficial connection.

? Often, the person is soo desperate to win at all costs, focused only on vanity metrics (IE upvotes, follows etc...) instead of building rapport and genuine connections/relationship building.

Those are usually inexperienced builders.

What they do not realise is that only 5% of startups win in the long run. One of the main reasons for that extremely low metric is because they focus on short term vanity wins instead of longterm retention of true supporters/users/customers.

It's not about the sale, its about genuine retention

(community/builders/users/customers).

?? It 100% matters on how you communicate/connect??

Message outreach that feels like "here buy/support my stuff" and void of any real connection or mutual care, will go straight into the spam box and ruin your reputation quickly! "Spray & pray" methods do not work nor benefit you or the person you are reaching out to.

?? No-matter what you have heard or think, it is NOT a numbers game. It IS a "quality of quantity" objective ??

When you have real true supporters of you (the person) and a love for your product/service you will grow much faster and longer.

The best part of being a founder is building together and genuinely supporting to see each other win with integrity, which also translates as belief in what they are addressing for their customers!

?? When we truly believe in the founder, team, product/service, and values/mission, we have no problem sharing that with the world and the potential of bringing them their ICP's authentically/organically ??

? Everyone wins this way.

? Build relations, not numbers on a dashboard.

? Talk to people building genuine connections EVERY SINGLE DAY (this is much more important that fancy marketing material).

There are true gems out there (a few gems that i have connected with like Slim Geransar and Alessio Mavica and Elena Tsemirava ).

Focus on those and don't let the 1-way-transactional ruin your beautiful entrepreneurial journey.

I'm rooting for you all and always open to supporting the REAL entrepreneurs.

Looking forward to all the superfantastical mutually supportive launches! ??????

As always, thank you for taking the time to read my newsletter ramblings. I'd love to hear your thoughts or questions!

Who am I?

Kellie “The Startup Whisperer” - a multi hat wearing startup founder/advisor with a special knack for people, communications & strategy within the AI technology startup space.

Led by an AI VC we connect founders with aligned investors by executing proper due diligence to position them in a place of hot strength instead of cold weakness and invited to directly access investor doors that would usually be shut to them.

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