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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I was totally product focused for the last year and now it’s live, so I need to start thinking about finding some customers. ” So instead finding out who and where those potential customers are , which is hard, he just made a product, which is easy (for him). So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. That is how great businesses are built. As they see you grow the become intrigued and probably analyze your business model and potential.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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The 90-Day CMO and Cross-Channel Acquisition Strategies That Scale

Duct Tape Marketing

What do you see as the challenges to that business model for most people that attempt to do it? I just think that if you want to get into this line of business, don't just [00:06:00] walk in and be like, okay. Like everything is custom here, this is fractional CMO work. And you know, not a fun business model to run.

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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

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Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), If you don’t have a validated product or business model yet, stop here. before continuing. It’s really hard.