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Y Combinator Cast

08/10/23

@ Y Combinator

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.

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50 Founders Share How They Got Their First Customers

@ Y Combinator

50 Founders Share How They Got Their First Customers

08/10/23

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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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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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Olivier Pomel

06/14/24

@ The Logan Bartlett Show

When we opened our platform to a wider audience, we found that self-selection by users led to better engagement and feedback than our initial closed beta approach.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

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

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

Even with many flaws, we saw incredible user growth, with 20,000 visitors in the first month, which encouraged us to keep going despite initial setbacks.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

We have about 40 beta testers, with around 25 using the app regularly, which indicates a promising level of engagement for an early-stage startup.

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Mathilde Collin

10/25/18

@ Y Combinator

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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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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Raj Shamani

10/07/23

@ Nikhil Kamath

I scaled my social media following from 50,000 to 300,000 in three months by analyzing top brands and creating relevant content.