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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Interviewing Glean founder Arvind: AI workplace search startup
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I’m interviewing the founder of @glean today what questions should I ask Arvind? Glean, an AI-powered workplace search, has raised over $100M at a $1Bn valuation, backed by @sequoia @BoxGroup @generalcatalyst @lightspeedvp @kleinerperkins and more.
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Hyper AI Companions Reach 1 Million Messages Milestone
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Over 1M+ messages have been sent to Hyper’s AI companions.
— Aaron Ng (@localghost) 4 septembre 2023
See you at 10M. pic.twitter.com/jBu2guR489Over 1M+ messages have been sent to Hyper’s AI companions. See you at 10M.
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Selective Investment Strategy: Maintaining Returns With Fewer Bets
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Given how selective benchmark is with who they invest in, how are they still able to make the same level of returns without as many shots on goal?
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Evernote’s Feature Bloat: When Customer Feedback Breaks Product Design
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This actually happened to Evernote. They took the advice of “keep talking to your customers and ship whatever they want” as the only guiding principle for product development. And what ended up happening was paying users liked it, but the product become unintuitive and feature
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Indie Devs Face Model Training Quality Barriers Without Big Data
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yea provlem is (and lmk if wrong) most indie devs cant train their own GPT models so they use openai/etc which cant get to the quality level needed with just "own or licensed content" as they need "everything online" amounts
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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?