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  1. Tell Lumen about your current situation.
  2. Receive daily bite-sized founding stories, articles, books tailored to your exact situation. We share practical real-world examples for you.
  3. Lumen continuously learns from your context, delivering increasingly insightful stories.

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💡 Examples

  • POV: You feel your product feels bloated / slow to ship.

    • Today’s bite

    Instagram — “Ship simple, ship yesterday”

    • Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger killed every Burbn feature except photo-sharing after a single white-board session, then relaunched as Instagram with filters → 25 k sign-ups on day 1,100 k in a week
    • The stack was still so scrappy that when superstar Justin Bieber forgot his password he phoned the tiny team, who manually reset it on the spot

      • Lesson: speed × simplicity beats perfect; you can polish later

    Try this now

    1. Write a “kill list” of every feature.
    2. Keep the one users truly love.
    3. Ship a “core-only” build to three testers in the next 24 h
  • POV: You can’t crack first 1000 users

    • Today’s bite

    Tinder — “300-Phone Campus Sprint”

    • Whitney Wolfe Herd and Justin Mateen seeded Tinder at USC by installing the app on ~300 students’ phones during sorority & fraternity house visits; usage jumped to 1 000 within that first week.

    Try this now

    1. Pick one tight community (event, Slack, Discord).
    2. Hand-hold installations until you see real profiles in the feed.

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