How I Got First Users For My $100M Startup
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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