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Tim Kozak

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Founder at Leverion • Chief Product Officer at Typedesk

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Vitalii Sydorenko

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Partner at Gearheart • Co-founder at LOOQME

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Enjoy exploring the knowledge base!

Even experienced entrepreneurs get stuck navigating extreme uncertainty that comes with building a startup from scratch.

We created this for founders trying to get to their first 10-20 B2B customers.

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FOUNDATIONS

How to Find a Good Startup Idea

What 0→1 Really Means

The Pain Cave & How to Avoid It

Demand VS Supply VS Distribution

The PMF Mountain (0–1 vs. 1–100)

CORE MENTAL MODELS

Why Smart Founders Fail at 0→1

Demand-Side Thinking

The Three Companies You Build

The Go-to-market System

Pull vs. Push & the First Bottleneck

FINDING DEMAND

Identifying High-Conviction Markets & ICP

Demand Signals & “Hell Yes” Customers

Avoiding False Positives

Tools for Capturing Demand Insights

FIRST 10-20 CUSTOMERS

Building the Conversation Engine

Outreach Channels & Tactics

Learning by Selling

Handling Early Sales Without Overbuilding

SALES PROCESS V1

Sales Tools & Processes

Demand-Side Demo / Case Study Approach

3-Meeting Sales Flow

Common Failure Modes in Early Sales

Follow-Up & Conversion Hygiene

DELIVERY PROCESS V1

Doing Things That Don’t Scale (Well)

Working with First Clients

Fast, Manual, High-Touch Delivery

Gathering Feedback & Iterating

Early Retention & Referrals

EXECUTION & CADENCE

Prioritizing the One Thing That Matters Now

Debugging the Bottleneck

Iterating vs. Big Pivots

Common Mistakes

USEFUL RESOURCES

0→1 Books

0→1 Articles

0→1 Videos

Knowledge Base is a work in progress… more coming soon!

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Ideas and frameworks in this knowledge base were inspired by the works of Rob Snyder (Harvard Innovation Labs) and Yuriy Zaremba (AiSDR) and Paul Graham (YCombinator), adapted for the Sales-led Idea Validation service.

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