@christinacaci scoured the YC network for past startups (aka later stage), and cold emailed anyone who ever mentioned the word "compliance" about what she was building at @TrustVanta
@lennysan
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@zoink built a built a custom app to find the most influential designers on Twitter and cold DM'd them to get their feedback on the early version of @Figma
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Sprig’s Early Sales Strategy: Cold Outbound with Investor Support
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Cold Email Prospecting Strategy for Startup Growth
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Cold outbound: underrated B2B startup growth channel
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Cold outbound is way under appreciated as an early growth channel. In my research into how the best B2B startups got started, cold outbound was the 2nd most common growth channel—only behind reaching out to friends and former colleagues. But, you need to be clever about it…
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Figma’s B2B Growth Strategy: From ICs to Company-Wide Adoption
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If you're building in B2B, do not miss my chat with @clairetbutler 🔥
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 8 septembre 2023
Learn why Figma first focused on ICs within an org loving their product, how they encouraged the product to spread internally, how they approached finding PMF, their freemium strategy, and much more. pic.twitter.com/EACJQQS8A4If you're building in B2B, do not miss my chat with @clairetbutler Learn why Figma first focused on ICs within an org loving their product, how they encouraged the product to spread internally, how they approached finding PMF, their freemium strategy, and much more.
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AI-Powered Tools Sponsor Podcast: Compliance, Analytics, Speech Models
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Inside Look at Figma’s Unique Go-to-Market Motion
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Listen now Apple: https://
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inside-look-at-figmas-unique-gtm-motion-claire/id1627920305?i=1000627075405
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Winning Your First 10 B2B Customers: Complete Guide
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For much more on this, don't miss my full post on finding and winning your first 10 B2B customers
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Custom LennyBot automates content management efficiently
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Yes! Custom built but does exactly this with my content, http://
LennyBot.com.
