Onboard Your Startup Customers By Taking an Investor Lens, Instead of a Sales Perspective

Paul Zhao
The Startup
Published in
5 min readOct 13, 2020

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For startups, it’s about customer selection. Not lead generation.

Credit: Anna Deinek

The most beautiful thing about founding and operating a startup is that you get to make meaningful choices. Each decision you make, especially in the early stages of your company, have outsized impact. To chart your own path and destiny (which…

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Paul Zhao
The Startup

Father, husband, former entrepreneur, corporate PM. I’m constantly looking for diversions to keep the neurons firing, if only a little.