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First 1000 — Case studies on how companies got their first 1000 customers
📈 How do top startups find their early customers?
Find out on First 1000. We share a case study every week about how companies like Zapier, Doordash and Tinder got their very first customers.
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This is great! As a consultant I go in and out of different industries and each time it requires a lot of research -- having some template strategies is a great idea and a resource not readily available.
@j2tiger I never thought about it from a consultants perspective actually, thats really insightful! Thank you for your support Jason
?makers this is really great. Just read the story of Calendly and it is spot on. Good research here! Well done ⚡️
Absolutely love this, fantastic work and execution Ali, super excited to see where it goes.
Hello @ali_abou_el_atta Just subscribed and have already read the SnapChat case study. Great stuff and attractive site/format. Perhaps one day sellff.com might make your list. We just launched on PH and HN this past week and have our "first 300." All the best to you and your product :-)
@4sellff I will be here whenever u get those first 1000! Hopefully its sooner than later and thanks for the kind words
Hello Product Hunt 👋,
So excited to be releasing first 1000 today. First 1000 at its core is a weekly newsletter about how companies got their first 1000 customers. How did companies get from 0->0.25. Each week we cover a new company, and try to uncover a new strategy/hustle/hack that those founders have leveraged to get the wheels going.
To give you a little taste, here are some of the stories we covered
Slice -> and how its founder turned his company into a fax-orders generation machine to sign his first pizzerias
Spotify->and how they managed to create the “illusion” of a better product to win early customers.
Bloomberg->and how he made morning coffee runs to land his first enterprise client.
Zumper ->and how they developed a tool to generate leads from their competitors.
Stitch Fix -> and how they launched their company without a landing page
we even a teardown on Product Hunt 😉.
I have some FANTASTIC INTERVIEWS lined up for the month of April and can't wait to have you all onboard.
Hit me up with any questions
@ali_abou_el_atta Checked few articles and they're well written, Subscribed. Thanks!
@ali_abou_el_atta Such a great idea and an absolutely favourite weekly read! Thanks for all the work and the insightful stories! Keep it up!
@ali_abou_el_atta Congrats on your PH launch Ali🥳
I have been a fan of First 1000 for a while now and it is by far one of the best newsletters that I look forward to every week.
A perfect combination of valuable growth insights in the least amount of time.
Keep them coming🙂
@ali_abou_el_atta Checking this late...but really interesting. Where can I read previous newsletter?
Signing up as well! That sounds like one of only a few newsletters that actually provide a lot of value. Although I would also be curious to learn more about early acquisition strategies of the "mid-sector". Not only the big companies and unicorns, but also the ones in the middle, that might not be super big, but are still doing really well.
@sarahxjo Roger that! For the next two issues actually we are interviewing YC companies from the batch of W21...not quite the midmarket u r looking for but will do my best...Any company comes to mind when u think of "mid-sector"? I have covered companies like Convertkit, Zapier, Tara.ai, Snackpass, Linear, Slice and DoNotPay which I hope is more of what you are looking for (?) Curious to hear your thoughts
Fascinating read every single time. I always look forward to the next company to be covered for 1st 1000. It's an interesting idea and very specific [narrow] in its scope which is why its very powerful.
Have subscribed to the newsletter. An eloquent new entry to Product Hunt on that most vital of subject - customer acquisition. Case studies are thought-provoking and immersive. Thanks so much for the information.
This is so awesome! Especially since I am going through these struggles now. Feel free to reach out for feedback in a couple weeks after I’ve gotten some emails.
Congrats on your launch Ali, saw you first on Newsletter Geeks and love your content. BTW what tool do you use for referral? (I'm this close to implement my own internal tool)
@nutpanda I implemented my own....happy to make a github fork for you though...
@ali_abou_el_atta Haha I made mine too but would love to have a look, let me know if you upload that to GitHub
Insightful sharing! The new format is very easy to digest and learn a lot from the story! Highly recommend.
I’m a long-time reader and fan @ali_abou_el_atta. So much so that I was recently toying with the idea of commissioning you to research the company/product I’m trying to displace with my own. have you considered this as part of the business model?
@libovness Thanks for the kind words Jonathan and your support. my twitter DMs are open! Lets talk 😉
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