Beaded Cliff
Beaded Cliff
The only public startup forum where every writer is a checked founder.
For founders and co-founders of any stage, bootstrapped or funded, who run a real company with its own domain and email.
One rule
Everything you read here, every opening message and every comment, is written by a verified founder.
What that gets you:
- Writers whose company has been checked
- Founders answering founders, and nobody else
- What you read is what founders actually lived
What does it cost?
Reading is free for everyone, and writing is free for every verified founder.
Reading
Free
for everyone
Writing
Free
for every verified founder
How it works
One rule only holds if something stands behind it. Three things do.
- 1
A real company
It has its own domain and its own email. Any stage, bootstrapped or funded.
- 2
The company is checked
Writing is open to founders whose company has been checked.
- 3
Founders write, everyone reads
Every comment and reply comes from a verified founder. Reading is free for everyone.
Reading is free. Start with a sample.
A sample
A founder asks
A founder with a real company writes the opening message.
Founders answer
Every reply comes from another founder whose company has been checked.
Anyone can read
Reading is free for everyone. The thread on the right is a sample, written for this page.
A customer asked for a discount in week one. Hold the price or give in?
Two of us, no runway to burn. I would like to hear what you actually did, not what the playbook says.
Held the price and added a month of hands-on setup. They stayed.
Gave the discount. By month three I resented the account. I would hold next time.
Sample thread, written for this page. The people and companies in it are made up.
Who writes here:
Any stage
Founders and co-founders, from the first idea onward.
Bootstrapped or funded
Funding is not the test. A real company is.
A checked company
Its company has been checked, so what you read is what founders actually lived.
Its own domain and email
Every writer has a company with a domain and an email of its own.