How to Get Your First 1,000 Users

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Episode 113: Today’s read is by one of my favorite startup creators, Lenny Rachitsky. The essay, How To Kickstart & Scale a Consumer Business, breaks down the seven proven strategies to acquire your first 1,000 users as a B2C startup. I’m going to read through each of the strategies, share some examples that Lenny provides, and provide some of my own thoughts on early growth. Original essay: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/consumer-business-find-first-users Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! [email protected] #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.
0:06.5	Before hopping into the episode, I would love to hear from you.
0:10.0	Shoot me an email, introduce yourself, there is nothing better than meeting my
0:14.3	listeners and hearing what you're up to and what you're building. I've heard from
0:18.5	probably 50-plus of you over the last few days and it's been absolutely amazing. So send an email to
0:24.7	Alex at morningbrew.com share a sentence or two about who you are at bare minimum just say
0:29.6	hi and I'll get the conversation going and I will 100% respond.
0:33.6	Now let's get to the episode.
0:35.4	Today's Reed is by one of my favorite startup creators,
0:38.8	Lenny Rochitzky, and the essay I'm about to share
0:42.0	is one that I've probably read a dozen times.
0:45.1	The essay is called How to Kick Start and Scale a Consumer Business
0:48.8	and it breaks down the seven proven strategies to acquire your first 1,000 users as a B to C startup.
0:55.4	I'm going to read through each of the strategies, share some examples that Lenny provides,
1:00.1	and provide some of my own thoughts as I read along.
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