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Early-stage founders talk endlessly about "growth," "scale," and "traction," yet very few understand the true power of their first 10 users. These early adopters are not a metric. They are not an audience. They are not the beginning of "viral growth." They are the single most important diagnostic in the entire product-market fit journey.
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Most founders underestimate how critical the first 10 users are. They assume acquisition matters more than retention. In reality, early users reveal whether a startup has real product-market fit or just excitement.
Most founders still believe a pitch deck needs 18–25 slides. Investors know better. At Seed Pulse Fund, only five slides consistently determine whether a founder gets a follow-up meeting.
Most AI startups will never matter. A few will define the next decade. We're interested in the second group. Seed Pulse Fund is opening applications for a small, highly selective batch of AI startups.
The biggest risk I ever took wasn't investing millions, it was trusting myself when I didn't know the landing. After years of backing founders, I learned that most people don't fail because of fear, they fail because of comfort.
It's not the founder that makes a startup succeed; it's the cofounder. While the founder is focused on pushing the company out to the world through social media, storytelling, and word of mouth, the cofounder is in charge of the technicals; building, structuring, and ensuring the vision actually works.