Hugo Santana 'Kaloh'

I'm sure a lot of you have read this iconic article by Paul Graham (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html) so I was wondering... how much time do you founders/early-stage startup marketers/growth hackers really spend on things that don't scale (like writing content, building relationships, etc.)?

Have any startup founders here ever had a coach? If so, what's been the main value you have taken away from the experience?  I ve been coaching founders for a few years now and am always curious/amazed at the takeaways that people leave a coaching relationship with. Often, it s not what they imagined!

We've recently launched our analytics platform. We are trying to figure out whether we should first focus on gaining customers who would use our Templates to get one-click analytics solutions or focus on the community who can build those solutions on the platform. The more Templates we have, the more attractive the product is for the paying customers. But until we have more paying customers, it is not that attractive for the community of builders. In the future, we would like to make it possible for the builders to make money per Template. A model is similar to Salesforce, but for Analytics. Currently, we address our UVP to the paying customer's side, but we also added information that it is possible to build your own Templates. So the pitch for paying customers is: Turn your data into Insights with a single click Pick your Template to get actionable insights instantly, with the use of AI. No code, no data team required. The pitch for builders is: Use Stormly s AI-based building blocks to create custom no- code analytics solutions, or reuse the existing ones in the form of Templates. Do you have any thoughts on this? Or maybe a similar experience and you would like to share your learnings? Which side should we start with?