I will write candid notes here.
At the dawn of 2020 I published the first newsletter on Substack, and I speak to you, early-stage SaaS founders - bootstrapped and seed funded alike.
I have always been driven by understanding the fundamentals. When something interests me, I like to think, experiment and connect the dots to know how it really works. And I don't feel confident until I understand it enough to either do it myself or explain it to my ever-loving mother.
Thus, jargon-stuffed mainstream content has never been able to quench my thirst. I don't blame mainstream content, for most of it is written to be a part of a marketing/sales funnel - to impress you enough so you pay for more.
But I like my writing to be a guiding light for my own curiosity and despondency. It made me design the organic growth approach, as the doorway to an enduring business.
I believe every early-stage SaaS business can grow to greater heights if the founding team is:
Open to understanding their market,
Comfortable in non-automated ways to reach out to prospects in creative ways,
Open to improving the product,
Willing to prioritize the discovery of the right direction and thereafter speed
Willing to work patiently for 6-10 months.
By the way, organic growth is not organic traffic. It's the organic nurturing, conversion, retention, and delight of the highest possible proportion of the best-fit segment of that organic traffic.
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