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Top 1% startups are not incrementally better. They’re fundamentally different.
They ask different questions, track different metrics, work from different assumptions and mental models, and run a different process.
If you want to understand their approach, read our newsletter. If you're ready to adopt it, check out our programme.
Our programme: Develop rigour around growth. Work side-by-side with our team of coaches to develop and execute your growth playbook and transform your team. In our 10-week virtual accelerator, you'll zoom out and figure out where to focus, and move faster with a metrics-driven process of rapid experimentation.”
You’re not the first person to try this startup thing. We can help.
Teams we’ve been fortunate enough to work with
0% Snakeoil
Second Nature
100x
100X
Fy
70X
so-sure
50X
Popsa
40X
Storemaven
30X
Mina
20X
Zenjob
17X
Thriva
12X
Simply Cook
12X
Houst
Ooni
Ferly
3.5X
SO-SURE
2,000%
1,000%
Our Path
600%
Get Agent
600%
KEKO (MOVIVO)
500%
Zen Job
500%
Storemaven
Airsorted
300%
900%
POPSA
550%
Qunomedical
300%
Settled
Thriva
300%
300%
CODEC
"They helped us shift our employee’s mindsets from perfectionism into a more entrepreneurial/hacky approach, so everyone behaves much more like founders. In an 8 person team that is priceless!"
Billie Quinlan
Co-Founder and CEO, Ferly
Revenue +3.5X in 3 months after our programme
Who Are We?
After watching hundreds of startups waste investors’ money on bad marketing hires and expensive non-scalable tactics, we founded Startup Core Strengths to help startups learn the foundational mindset and habits to drive sustainable growth.
After 20 years as Silicon Valley operators and investors, our mission is to enable early-stage startups to get much much better at customer acquisition. We know it’s not only possible but repeatable. And, We’ve seen that it’s not only repeatable but also teachable.
Gold dust for Impatient Founders
Hyper-curated. Two minutes per week:
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Growth tactics worth stealing
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Interview questions
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Useful mental models
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Our two-minute email brings one actionable growth idea per week for impatient founders & their teams. Here are some highlights:
“We asked ourselves if we had $5M in funding, would we even know what to do with it? That’s why we needed a program like Startup Core Strengths. To show us the proper levers and execution strategies for rapid, sustainable growth.