It really isn’t that exciting day to day, however, it might be during the burst of activity in the few weeks of a YC batch. I’m curious, what type of short form snap like content would you be interested in?
Thanks to all the 50+ YC founders for sharing your stories! Your unique experiences onboarding your first customers are super inspiring. Keep up the great work!
This channel is amazing!!!...I'm from South Africa , and I'm starting my very own property development company and the information I am getting here is great♡♡
Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro: How did you find your first customer? 00:20 - Sweetspot 00:31 - Shasta Health 00:45 - Kapa AI 01:01 - Platform we got our first customer? 01:15 - Envelope Money 01:36 - Reworkd AI 01:53 - Greenlite 02:12 - Ohmic Biosciences 02:23 - Kino AI 02:34 - MantleBio 02:49 - Accend 02:57 - Craftwork 03:11 - Helios 03:25 - Letter AI 03:52 - Outro
I built an embarrassingly simple and terrible looking MVP in about a month and forced people to pay $29.99/month to even try to use the product. Spent about $700 on Google Ads and actually got a paying customer within about 2 weeks.
Hey Y Combinator, I just watched your video and I must say that it was really informative and well-made. I loved your videos. I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and also make highly engaging shorts for you?
It's intriguing to hear about the various strategies to land that crucial first customer. What method or approach do you think proved most effective for your startup in securing your initial customers?
How can a startup without customer can be accepted by YC? There are couple of people in the video without customers. Do these individuals possess the right founder-market fit?
@@ycombinator I was aware of that statistic. What remains unclear to me is which of those 40% of companies did not have any customers or a waitlist with people signed up.
Yes @Kanibulus, Paypal or Uber show it can be cheaper to pay customers directly than to spend on ads or sales. It's strange but true: sometimes, paying customers to be your customers is more cost-effective.
@@montramedia You tell a potential customer here is $20. To get it you need to sign up for paypall or a more recent example, revolut. Then they signup where they get $20 and they can transfer it anywhere they want. This is cheaper than if you would have to spend $80k a year for a sales person to get get x amount of sales or spend $20 in advertisements to get customer in. Uber did the same thing if you google.
