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May 19, 2023

How to build a scalable company with no-code tools

“We had tried to build the most intricate platform — all bells and whistles — so it took us five months before we got anything out to customers,” says Murvah Iqbal, who at the time was running a platform that sold advertising on white delivery vans in London. By the time they got the product out, the team realised they didn’t have product-market fit. They had done too much, too soon and burnt through their small angel round of funding.

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Anisah Osman Britton is coauthor of Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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