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How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

#61

This is a really interesting document. I literally cringe reading it. At first I thought that I'd really like something like this document but with less random quotes, less facile language, less cheer leading, less fill in the blanks, etc. But then I thought... I wonder if I am reacting this way because this is exactly what I need to be reading. What if the way of thinking espoused by this document is precisely why I…

My encouragement for you to start a business is this, 'become unstoppable'. How you become unstoppable is finding your 'why' for doing it. I think this is the hardest part... and more important than finding 'a business opportunity' because I think you need the meaning of your 'why' to sustain you through the difficulties of new venture creation, especially as you iterate through to product market fit.

I think once you have your why, you'll find yourself naturally doing whatever it takes to execute, which sharpens your focus away from noise like what you're describing (i.e. other people's communication styles) and allows you to 'take what you need' from resources, such as this book, and ignore everything else.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Super simple. No matter the industry, you can beat the competition with AI + blockchain written in Rust.

Which server would you use to host it? Hint: It's a trick question

Serverless of course ;-)

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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> sorry lads Come on, we can do better than that. This isn't an ol' boys club.

"Lads" is an appropriate, albeit very british, way of addressing men, which the poster above was doing. Why the noise?

Why not address all readers, instead of only men?

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Lads" is an appropriate, albeit very british, way of addressing men, which the poster above was doing. Why the noise?

Why not address all readers, instead of only men?

Apparently you can use 'guys' now instead

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Nicely formatted PDF version: http://v.fastcdn.co/u/61275824/34126901-0-33906331-0-The-Fir...

Or, better yet, thank the author himself by downloading it straight from his own website : https://first100.yobenlee.com/

That's a nice looking sales page.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #34

Presentation is not good. Endless headings followed by double space followed by short paragraph or bullet points. Hard to read, annoying to scan. I can see a lot of generic fluff. There may be pearls in there, but I didn't spot any on quick glance.

> There may be pearls in there, but I didn't spot any on quick glance.

I've read 1/4 but carefully and already found several pearls. Mind you, some people will already know 80% of knowledge in this book, but it's not the same 80% for anyone. I won't tell you what is usable because this book is very general and different parts are usable to different people.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #29

I have an interesting question. Say there is an already established business that has more than proven the idea is viable. What does it take to... join the same market space? Can you offer the same features at the same price? Can you offer the same features at a lower price? Can you offer less features at a lower price? Are there cases where there is only room for one player and no matter what you do, you will not be…

Super simple. No matter the industry, you can beat the competition with AI + blockchain written in Rust.

And an amazing team: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*TZ-QFPLJjt470c3pc7...

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Lads" is an appropriate, albeit very british, way of addressing men, which the poster above was doing. Why the noise?

Why not address all readers, instead of only men?

The poster above was not addressing readers, but rather three specific people.
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