How I Got First Users For My $100M Startup
How to get your first 100 paid customers with no audience, no money and no experience. Charlie on the brute-force phase behind VEED's first million users, the Y Combinator rejection that forced a paywall up in one weekend, and the napkin math for 100 users in a single day.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:28 Brute force
03:42 75% marketing, 25% building
06:29 Instant vs compounding channels
09:57 The YC rejection
11:09 The survey said no
13:11 One line of copy
15:31 Find one channel
21:00 The real hack is intensity
23:46 100 users in a day
25:11 What I'd do today
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:28 Brute force
03:42 75% marketing, 25% building
06:29 Instant vs compounding channels
09:57 The YC rejection
11:09 The survey said no
13:11 One line of copy
15:31 Find one channel
21:00 The real hack is intensity
23:46 100 users in a day
25:11 What I'd do today