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Speaker: Josh Ledgard (@joshaledgard)
- 989 customers after 1 month –> $10 revenue (Q: “What are you going to spend your $5 on?” A: “Coke and Hookers!”)
- Even if you are NOT seeking investment, go talk to investors. They will tell you the “10 things that are wrong with your business idea”
- 10 hours on Quora resulted in $35,000 of sales for KickoffLabs
- “Customers have also bought…” – Your customers have other problems! Help them solve those problems with cross-selling
- The bar set by other companies in areas such as customer support is ridiculously low
- Get Personal (Josh checked every single of the first 500 created landing pages and made suggestions to improve them!)
- Nothing spells “I value my customers” quite as much as getting an email from “no-reply@”
- “Choose your customers over your code”
- Integrate a progress bar on your website: “Help us get to 500 customers!” – Add share buttons – PROFIT!
- at 500+ customers: Amplify your roaring fans (use testimonials, tell people to tell their friends)
- Long Startup time / slow performance dramatically kills whole user experience
About Christoph
Christoph lives in Munich, Germany and is bootstrapping his own SaaS application as a part-time entrepreneur.
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