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Keith Schacht

11/27/17

@ Y Combinator

I remember one moment when we realized we had traction; we got about 15,000 signups in a day after running a small ad on Facebook about Mystery Science.

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Keith Schacht and Doug Peltz on What Traction Feels Like - at YC Edtech Night

@ Y Combinator

Keith Schacht and Doug Peltz on What Traction Feels Like - at YC Edtech Night

11/27/17

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Cindy Mi

01/17/19

@ Y Combinator

We weren't prepared for rapid growth when a key opinion leader shared our program, leading to 2,000 sign-ups overnight, which we struggled to manage in a timely manner.

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Matt Cutts

12/04/19

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I remember a significant moment when we realized the potential of self-service advertising after a lobster company became one of our first AdWords advertisers.

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Mathilde Collin

10/25/18

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Content marketing was key in acquiring our first 3,000 signups during private beta, as I wrote blog posts that sparked curiosity about email and its future.

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Ron Conway

10/27/13

@ Y Combinator

The growth and user engagement on Facebook excited me, even though I wasn't a big user myself; the metrics showed it was gaining traction quickly.

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Kathryn Minshew

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

After launching, we grew from reaching about a hundred thousand people a month to a million and a half a month.

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Emmett Shear

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

Launching our show garnered national attention, and we experienced significant growth, hitting 150,000 unique visitors in the first month.

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06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

We grew our user base from 350 to 2500 through press coverage and word of mouth, targeting college campuses for further expansion.

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Kathryn Minshew

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@ Y Combinator

When we launched The Muse, I reached out to my contacts via email to ask for word-of-mouth support, which led to significant initial traction.

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08/10/23

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We launched our closed beta on Twitter, which rapidly increased our followers from 50 to 10,000 and attracted 150,000 unique visitors a day.