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Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

40 pointsby going_to_800about 9 years ago
Wondering?

4 comments

joshonthewebabout 9 years ago
Twitter. If you are solving a real pain point, there will likely be people complaining about it on twitter. Search for those phrases and offer to solve their problem. I got my first couple hundred users this way. Then it grew organically from there.
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iqonikabout 9 years ago
I&#x27;m aware that I owe you an email reply OP, sorry I have been busy and have stopped cold emailing customers.<p>Right now, I&#x27;m selling to retail &#x2F; real estate (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.retailwizard.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.retailwizard.co.uk</a> &#x2F; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propertywizard.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propertywizard.io</a>) so to get customers I literally go to their workplace &amp; ask them for 5 minutes of their time. I did try emailing as you know, but I have found going to speak to to them face-to-face to be more effective for my niche.<p>Obviously email works for other sectors, something I&#x27;m looking to explore again in the future.
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tixocloudabout 9 years ago
Thanks for asking a very relevant question.<p>Another tip I can share is going to meetups of your target customer and building relationships.<p>We&#x27;re building something that&#x27;s fairly overlapping (i.e. landing pages, etc. ) but we&#x27;re more focused on the marketing automation piece. Good luck!
gearoidocabout 9 years ago
It really depends on your product. Is it an app? SaaS?<p>Have you validated yet?
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