Solo founder

Early-stage founder doing a bit of everything. Time-poor, pragmatic, optimizes for speed.

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“I don't care about personas. I care about the specific three customers who yelled at me last week. Make me not forget them.”

— Chris B., Solo Founder / CEO

so what ·At seed stage, frameworks are theater. Ship memory, not abstraction. Revisit personas as the customer base scales.

“If it takes more than ten minutes to get a first draft, I'll just write it myself. I don't need perfect, I need moving.”

— Alex R., Founder

so what ·Time-to-first-draft is the real conversion metric. Every extra minute of setup kills the funnel for solo founders.