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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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Co-founder at LOOQME •

Partner at Gearheart

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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 are inspired by the works of Rob Snyder (Harvard Innovation Labs) and Yuriy Zaremba (AiSDR) and Paul Graham (YCombinator), and distlled from personal experience of Tim & Vitalii

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