We went from 0 to 1,000+ paid customers in our first 20 weeks by religiously following … — @fin465
We went from 0 to 1,000+ paid customers in our first 20 weeks by religiously following these @ycombinator 12 rules: 1/ grow retention before growth. we didn't run a single growth campaign until we hit 90% weekly retention. scaling a leaky bucket just means you fail faster 2/
We went from 0 to 1,000+ paid customers in our first 20 weeks by religiously following these @ycombinator 12 rules: 1/ grow retention before growth. we didn't run a single growth campaign until we hit 90% weekly retention. scaling a leaky bucket just means you fail faster 2/ ignore everyone who isn't your customer. i stopped reading competitor blogs, industry news, and most of twitter. the only company that can kill you in year one is your own 3/ manual is faster than perfect. our first 50 users each got a personal onboarding call from me. you can't automate what you don't understand…
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