My experience starting a curated list, interviewing founders and growing to hundreds of newsletter subscribers

With a few interviews underway, and a mailing list in the hundreds, it's an interesting point to stop and think what has been done with Open Startup List in the past several weeks.

• I've created a curated list of open startups in less than a week.
• I've launched.
• I've been interviewed for a tech magazine.
• I've started interviewing founders and currently have interviewed 4 founders and few more interviews are coming in the next weeks.

What have I learned from this experience

It's fun to create stuff and share with people, as a first experience in creating I recommend it to anyone.

If you haven't launched before, just create something, feel what it means to launch, feel what it means to have over 1000 people viewing your website on launch day and then feel what it means to have a drop in traffic a day after launch. Feel what it means to send your very first newsletter to hundred of people.

It's important to experience these things, especially in the world of entrepreneurship, you want to move fast, experience things, try stuff.

There are several websites that already had this type of list of Open Startups, what makes yours special?

Leading by example, I've a link to the traffic of the website, so in some way OpenStartupList.com is sharing metrics as well.

Also, I'm interviewing the Open Startups on my list. True, it's a small list, but quality over quantity, right 😉

My advice if you want to start a curated list

Just do it, even Pieter started with a curated list of places to travel and work remotely and grew from there.

If it's something that makes you curious, and you think it can be done better or is doesn't exist yet, go ahead, you will learn something new.