How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School

"You'll enter the THROUGH of sorrow"???? I really, Really, REALLY HATE it when people who make videos, don't take time to edit mistakes, and just leave them in. No worries, I'll just ignore it and focus on WHY IS HE STRUGGLING TO SAY TROUGH? HOW HARD IS IT TO SAY WORDS CORRECTLY?! WHY DID NOBODY CATCH THIS?! This is all I can think about and the rest of the video is playing, and I have to rewind to catch the information, or more likely, go back to finding something else.

Even if you end up with the new era for developers in foraign countries.
We need to make things better, faster, and simpler.

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This is gold

question: brex' initial email didn't ask for payment either

what makes them different?

I appreciate this video. It's interesting that it seems to be B2B advice. Marketing should replace sales for a B2C style business. Sales is boots on the ground, marketing is sales without the direct our reach. Of course at some point this must scale.

just reading..
did nt like

I have a question, how do we get the emails of potential customers in the first place?

Y'all helped alienate stock growth from profitability. That model is falling out of favor. How will you change your ethos to encourage profitability over monopoly?

Thank you,excellent help for me.

I have a question, why is it important to have data on whats working and whats not, as with time, post your 1st 50 customers, I think the strategy completely changes based on customer feedback, or am I wrong ?

An insightful video

How do you know they open the emails?

List the 4 web tools, 2 books 📚

Thankss!!! Very technical❤

This is remarkably bad for a video from a prominent accelerator. Good info, but just so poorly presented and underwhelmingly done.

Thank You!

Is cold emailing allower in the US?

Regarding the fact that we should avoid offering free trials, I can see how offering a money back guarantee or opt-out can be a good approach for subscription based pricing model, I wonder which is the recommended approach for transaction fee based pricing?

Besides your network, how else do you find qualified prospects and feed the top of the funnel? There has to be more than leads databases.

How about "free" as in transaction fee, e.g. AirBnb.

Hello

Gustaf, this class was really incredible! Thanks!

Thank you so much. It helps me a lot.

What an insightful session on kickstarting customer acquisition! The idea of doing things that don't scale resonates deeply, as early interactions can set the tone for long-lasting relationships.

Dude, you made easy for all of us in less than 23 minutes. I just received a pat for myself knowing I am thinking correctly in some areas. The slap on my neurons was don't outsource sales. Hope they are listening. Thanks a lot and next time block I am going to search for your videos.

💌from India

How should i word the subject field for the email?

Probably most amazing video on sales for startups I watched! Thank you!

I know he's speaking in plain English but I found his cadence hard to follow and many words sounded jumbled/ pronunciation difficult to understand -- is it just me?

30 minute video and you didn’t mention one time to pick up the phone to call a potential customer. Why not?

I used to think getting software to work was the hardest part.
That's until I got my MVP and tried to sell it to customers

Why is it a bad idea to offer trials, or even fremium products in b2b? I dont get the whole argument.

One word, AMAZING!!!! ❤

"The through of sorrow" lmao
It's "trough" pronounced "troff"
A long, wide, low container used for feeding groups of livestock.

So much valued video bro. 😊

Great video! Very elucidative! Thanks!

fantastic

I don’t know how many times I’ve watch this video and still I keep learning from it. Thanks for this Gustaf!

What happened to the audio?

Any book for market reserch i want to check my idea and get insight

This feels very SaaS/B2B. What about consumer?

This was great! Thank you for sharing!

This is gold!

useful

What are the best websites where I can find lists of newest stratups? I am launching a CRM platform, and I would like to target mainly early stage startups. Thanks! P.S. I loved the video, a lot of great tips!