How to get early traction for a startup

Hello to everyone who reads my articles not for the first time! For those who are here for the first time, I will add to the greeting that everything written below is the result of my personal experience and the experience of several dozen teams, which I had a chance to spy on as a mentor, mentor, business angel and, I hope, just a friend of the founders.





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