
Verstage
Shareable, stage-by-stage project tracking without status-chasing.
What is Verstage?
Verstage lets teams create progress trackers for client orders, cases, and internal projects. Add stages, share a link, and let clients or teammates follow updates in real time without creating an account. Keep internal steps private while sharing only the progress others need to see, reducing status emails, calls, and follow-up messages.
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2722 dispatches from hundreds of founders, pulled from the week's best podcasts.
I always start by running ads it's always the first thing I do so I do it on Google and meta depending on the product sometimes it's better on Google sometimes it's better on meta it's the fastest way to validate and test the market and as soon as I get some traction with ads I move to the second part of the growth which is SEO
Run Ads First to Validate Fast Then Compound With SEO
Samuel sequences his growth channels deliberately: paid ads give immediate signal on whether people will pay, and only after that signal arrives does he invest in the slower-compounding SEO channel. This order prevents wasting months on SEO for a product that never converts.
There's some great use cases for TAM, the big one being really like a sales tactic to be candid. From a TAM standpoint you're going out to investors talking about how big the opportunity is. The flaws come when you start trying to calculate the addressable audience from a modeling standpoint and what you should do strategically from product strategy and monetization strategy.
TAM is a sales tactic — SAM is what should drive strategy
Use TAM for the investor pitch and the dream. The moment you use it to model product or monetization strategy, you'll be wrong. Operationally, you want SAM — the serviceable addressable market that actually reflects who can and will pay.
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