Andrea

Leading @Tulip_AMS
building TenNine VC
ams → sf

Stitching logarithmic curves onto an exponential one.

[Dom Italian Builder @dom_gag_96]

BUILDER RESIDENCY ARRIVING IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 🇮🇹

15 builders. One villa in Umbria.

One week to finally ship the thing you've been sitting on for months.

Read the thread below 👇

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

@T_I_J_S @gre1nerX Where/what does your ICP usually eat?

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

@T_I_J_S 😶‍🌫️

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

@gre1nerX founder mode

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

london maxing?

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

we don’t see this shit in Ams

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

this rooms smells shit

[Philipp Greiner @gre1nerX]

>in a shit hostel in london
>hot as fuck
>working on stuff we barely comprehend
>tired as fuck
>happiest we’ve prolly been in some weeks
thx @jointhebridge

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

preferably from a country in which minimum wage doesn’t pay rent

[Juan @0xfJuan]

If you want to build a $1M company, stop hiring MBAs.

Find the kid who:

> was flipping sneakers at 15
> ran a YouTube channel with 47 subscribers
> sold candy out of their backpack
> went pro gaming
> obsesses over algorithms

That's the person you want building your company.

[Philipp Greiner @gre1nerX]

performative airport vibecoding son or performative airport MAFIA watching son? no daughter option rn

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

AMSTERDAM TECH WEEK MAXINGG

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

the median age of startup founders is decreasing…

[Finn Mallery @fin465]

in @ycombinator they have a playbook on how to get customers ASAP for your startup.

if you follow this, you’ll brute force your way to 100 customers, almost no matter what your product is.

Here it is:

1/ launch-max.

product hunt, hackerNews, devhunt, betalist, peerlist, indie hackers, etc. YC tells you to launch 3 times MINIMUM

2/ pull your competitor’s strongest backlinks and get yourself listed in the same places.

whatever article they have listed, you make a better version and ask the site to replace it (or supplement) with yours.

3/ WARM OUTBOUND.

Everyone knows about building in public. but you still need to capitalize on the 99% of leads who see your content but don’t come inbound

scrape everyone who likes your posts on Linkedin each week, check if they fit your customer profile, and message them.

you set this up to fire automatically with @origamichat (i dropped a prompt in the comments)

4/ find 20 to 30 ugc creators on tiktok / instagram in your niche. ask them to create content about your product, ideally from a fresh account.

pay them a fixed fee ($15–$30 per video) plus performance incentives ($1k for 1 million views, etc).

you can use @sideshift_app (best creators imo) and line up 20+ of these creators in 1 day

5/ when building in public, a video is 10x better than an image/text - spam use cases of ur product on X/Linkedin

6/ figure out where your customers actually spend time.

which slack/discord groups are they in? what newsletters do they open? which podcasts and accounts do they follow? pay those people for shoutouts

7/ there's a fresh trend on x basically every week. jump on the relevant ones and fold your product in (like i’m doing right now).

To find trends i just use Origami & search “Lead Gen/GTM posts that are viral on X” to find the best posts every week in my niche

Then, I will reply to those, quote tweet them, and use the formats that work myself

(that’s the secret to why my account has high engagement BTW - you can do this too)
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if you are doing all this every single week and DO NOT GIVE UP (launching, posting demos, contacting new customers)

I guarantee you will hit your customer goals. Then the game becomes retention.

will be posting 2-3 more growth hacks every single week

[Oliver @olivercingl]

I skipped highschool again to fly to SF alone at 17yo.

Yesterday I bought my flight.

Today I landed here.

But this time it's different. I only have 2 weeks to accomplish what I want.

Will you help me?

[Camilo Acosta @CamiloBAcosta]

The oldest founder in the current YC batch is 31 👀

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

who decides what is beautiful and based on what?

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

agency & taste = being a person

[Tristan Rhee @Tristanrhee3]

Everyone has AI now.

That advantage expired fast.

What's the new advantage?

[Chris Lu @chris__lu]

https://t.co/SJVZzYi1CL

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Julius Caesar knife block.

[Andrea @andreacicuX]

@benaratame i’d love to join!

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Act like you already have the term sheet, and soon, you will.