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From T2 to Pebble: The Rise, Challenges, and Lessons of Building a Twitter Alternative

Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the…

13 min readNov 1, 2023

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Before You Launch

I’ve now helped dozens of teams get ready for a first product launch in Area 120. This is the advice I usually give a bit in advance of…

2 min readJun 1, 2019

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The Build-A-Better-Mousetrap Trap

It happens most often to people with an engineering background like myself: You have an idea for a new app. It’s a better mousetrap — so…

3 min readMay 13, 2019

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The Build-A-Better-Mousetrap Trap

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It Doesn’t Matter If The Product Exists

You might spend years building a product only to see your startup die because you can’t grow it. Here’s an example how to avoid that fate.

3 min readFeb 8, 2019

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It Doesn’t Matter If The Product Exists

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Essential Growth Metrics

Startups and Area 120 projects often ask me to share metrics related to user acquisition: What does it cost me to acquire users via ads…

2 min readJan 17, 2019

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Startups: Build Websites, Not Apps

Startup spend way too much time and too many resources on building native mobile apps for iOS and Android. In this post I want to convince…

6 min readJan 17, 2019

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Startups: Build Websites, Not Apps

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11 Ways to Build Retention Into Your Product

Retaining users is critical to your startup’s success. But how do you do it? In this post, we’ll discuss 11 concrete ways to keep them…

12 min readDec 11, 2018

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11 Ways to Build Retention Into Your Product

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9 Ways to Build Virality into your Product

If your startup is building a consumer product, your product has to be viral. For consumer products, the average revenue per user tends to…

12 min readNov 27, 2018

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The 4 Scenarios of Startup Timing

The factor that determines most of the outcome of your startup is the one you have the least control over: Timing.

6 min readNov 14, 2018

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The 4 Scenarios of Startup Timing

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There Are 3 Ways to Build a $100M Revenue Startup

The goal in any venture-funded startup is to get to at least $100M in annual revenue. That’s what you need to be valued at $1B or more by…

8 min readNov 8, 2018

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Gabor Cselle

Gabor Cselle

Former Co-Founder / CEO of Pebble, a Twitter / X alternative that didn't make it. Previously: Startup Entrepreneur, PM, Engineer at Google and others.

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