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3 months. 10 reports. No-VC Reports is finally taking off.

Hey everyone,

Writing content is tough - at least for me. Add the need for consistency and the challenge gets steeper.

But I wanted to share the lessons I learnt while building my startup to $700,000 in revenue. I had made many mistakes along the way. Yet, I could see many new & experienced entrepreneurs make similar ones.

That brought me to "No-VC Reports".

What is it?

The promise was simple: Build your startup in 6 months by reading 5-min reports.

It would include a tutorial for every step of one's startup journey, written succinctly. No nonsense.

Why?

I believe that:

  1. Quality startup lessons are scattered
  2. Startup books are non-actionable
  3. Generally, content pieces are too long.

So, I decided to write the No-VC reports such that:

  1. Each tackles a specific problem.
  2. Every report has a standard structure.
  3. They should take only 5-mins to read.

What's the standard structure?

  • Problem 🤕
  • Solution 🕵️
  • Why and when to worry about this? ⏱️
  • Tools 👝
  • Implementation 🔨
  • Related posts 📪

This standard structure is to ensure:

  • Zero fluff
  • Also, allow any person to go the specific section they want to read and move on, instead of wading through content

Finally a request

After completing 10 reports, I decided it was time I launched this effort on Product Hunt. I would love your support there: PH Link.

The 10 reports are as follows:

  1. I want to validate my startup idea: Link

  2. I want to find a co-founder: Link

  3. I want to build a marketing website but don't know to code: Link

  4. I want to know if I should work towards getting VC funding: Link

  5. I want to build a product but have no coding skills: Link

  6. I want to find users for my new startup: Link

  7. I want to find my first paying customer: Link

  8. I want to increase my website's traffic: Link

  9. I want to find new ways of marketing my startup: Link

  10. I want to understand the deal with Google Ads: Link - This one is fresh out of the oven :). Just finished writing it this morning.

on October 28, 2020
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    Upvoted !
    Congrats on being #5 product of the day by the way :)

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      Thanks a lot Monique :)

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    Nicely done Karthik. Been following your twitter posts and it's good to see these are actually coming from your journey as a founder.

    Upvoted and all the best!

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      Thanks for the kind words Akhil :)

      Really appreciate the support and wishes!