Three months after the launch, I’ll tell you how it’s going.
Three months ago I decided to dedicate myself fully to a project, but first I’d like to tell you a bit about myself.
I’m 25 years old, I’m studying economics, and over the last six years I worked in the family business, which we shut down on March 31, 2026 after a long period of crisis.
Alongside my main job, I got closer to the Startup world: I worked on many projects, collaborated with amazing people, had co-founders, joined an incubator, and failed six times, across six different projects.
After the closure, I decided to dedicate myself completely to the startup world and to launch a project that supports founders who have an idea, put together a pitch deck in three hours, and then get rejected by investment funds because they’re not ready. We prepare them and bring them back to investors with all the necessary documents.
Now you might say: this guy is 25 with six years of experience and wants to teach founders how it’s done. No, I don’t want to teach anyone anything. I can’t wait until I’m 45 with decades of experience to do something, but I’ve made so many mistakes that I can share that awareness with people who don’t have any experience at all.
Anyway, I started the project in February 2026, launched the MVP in mid-March, and within two weeks 20 founders landed on the platform, entirely organically, with €0 spent on advertising.
On April 9 we introduced the paid plan; on April 12 we got our first paying customer (“we”, me and Claude Code).
I shared this small milestone on LinkedIn (because on LinkedIn you’re somebody only if you brag about your results), and an angel investor commented under our post saying they were intrigued by the idea and would have some startups in their portfolio test our platform.
From that moment on, I decided to try to contact as many angel investors as possible to understand whether they had the problem of receiving a large number of pitch decks from founders who hadn’t done their homework.
We discovered that Business Angels and investment funds reject 98% of pitches without moving to the call stage, because most of the aspiring founders aren’t ready or have nothing in hand beyond 10 slides and a funding request.
After that, we ended up on the radar of a publicly listed pre-seed/accelerator investment fund, one of the biggest in Italy (yes, I’m writing from Italy). Interested in our solution, we had a call, and we concluded they would test the startups they had rejected on our platform.
After the first fund, a second one joined the platform for the same reason.
All of this with a few social posts and an MVP.
Not having the time to sit still and wait for funds to start sending founders to me, I decided to launch a Meta Ads campaign.
For the first campaign, I got the objective completely wrong: I set €15/day, but optimized for traffic. So Meta started sending me all kinds of people who mis-clicked the ad.
I stopped the campaign and duplicated it with a conversion objective.
The second campaign launched at €25/day, and that very evening I had 5 new registered users, 5 founders who decided to try to pull their idea out of the drawer and get it off the ground.
Is the startup validated? No. I have 33 founders in the pipeline and tomorrow I could fail for any reason.
Now, these are small numbers obviously, but: 33 founders, a working MVP, 2 investment funds signed up, the ads seem to work, I have a CAC that’s 1/6 of LTV and I’m constantly, intensely on alert because it feels like everything is always in balance. I’m being criticized by half the people I talk to, but I’m not stopping. I don’t want to stop. I’m seeing the occasional small result and I have no reason to quit because of some criticism.
I wanted to share this brief journey because it can give hope to many. Then maybe in a month I’ll have failed and won’t have a penny to my name, but I’ll let you know.
Keep building in public, criticism will mostly come from people who realize they’re doing nothing compared to you, and they’ll try to belittle you to bring you down to their level.