6. Get press Three startups I looked at had meaningful success with early PR— @Amplitude_HQ
, @canva
, and @SlackHQ
@lennysan
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Early PR Success: Three Startup Case Studies
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Networking and Community Building Strategies for Startup Growth
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4. Participate in communities, and network A surprising number of startups found some of their early customers by old-school networking and community building. This includes participating both in offline and online communities, and sometimes creating your own community.
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Leverage Your Investors’ Networks for First Customers
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3. Tap your investors’ networks Though it’s not a large bucket, some startups found success leveraging their investors to find their first handful of customers, especially among YC. But not by asking for introductions—instead, by doing the hard work of…
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Investor Networking Strategies for YC Founders and Capital Raising
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digging into the investors’ own networks (including batch-mates within YC) and cold-emailing them. And not only pitching these founders but also asking them for intros to other founders who may be a fit.
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Finding and Winning Your First 10 B2B Customers
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How to find and win your first 10 B2B customers:
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AI Tools for Product Management and Data Import
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Eric Ries Podcast Interview: What Questions to Ask?
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We do have @ericries coming on the pod soon, what should I ask him?
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Sajith W and Benchling: Notable figures in biotech AI
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@sajithw is a very special dude, and @benchling is a very special company
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Sprig Leverages AI for Advanced Survey Solutions
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.@Sprig doing very cool things with surveys and AI https://t.co/cjJE7OakEi pic.twitter.com/4AjvM8Bqzm
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 30 août 2023.
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AI Product Getting 100 Daily Queries, Iterating Features
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Seeing about 100 queries a day, but I'm not promoting it too much, so people don't think about it normally. But we're continuing to iterate and make it better (e.g. easier to share answers, remember context, rate answers, etc.)