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Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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"Roadmapping: a pre-development product workshop that helps founders validate their app idea against the marketplace. [...] With more than 500 Roadmapping sessions under our belt, we can say definitively that it works: 18% of our alumni raise more than $250,000 in pre-product seed capital" How on earth is raising money a synonym of successful product market fit?

Yeah, once I read that I couldn't stand to read on, it was like, oh, this is just BS then, that's not a signal of success or market fit, it's a sign of convincing investors there is.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

#83

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Ah...sorry lads! couldn't tell on mobile :-)

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

In Ireland "lads" is (weirdly to British people) gender neutral and is used by men and women to refer to mixed groups of people.

I don't know if itsbenlee is Irish or in Ireland.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #79

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

Why do I need to give my name and email so I can be added to a mailing list before I can even see the content? Obviously this isn't a problem because the submission has the content, as does the other commenter's direct link, but I just hate this sort of UX. Let me see the value of your content (not a sales page) and if I really like it I'll subscribe to a mailing list after .

Why does the author have to write a book just to get your E-Mail? It's a transaction. Obviously as the consumer you would prefer having the upside without the downside. The same is true for the vendor.

We usually meet somewhere in the middle and call it a day.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #79

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Why do I need to give my name and email so I can be added to a mailing list before I can even see the content? Obviously this isn't a problem because the submission has the content, as does the other commenter's direct link, but I just hate this sort of UX. Let me see the value of your content (not a sales page) and if I really like it I'll subscribe to a mailing list after .

Why does the author have to write a book just to get your E-Mail? It's a transaction. Obviously as the consumer you would prefer having the upside without the downside. The same is true for the vendor. We usually meet somewhere in the middle and call it a day.

Because my email is free of spam right now and I'd prefer to keep it that way, especially without a promise my email is not going to get sold around in a mailing list.

I also shouldn't have to research around to see if a website author is the "type" to sell my email around, that's bad UX.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #79

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

Why do I need to give my name and email so I can be added to a mailing list before I can even see the content? Obviously this isn't a problem because the submission has the content, as does the other commenter's direct link, but I just hate this sort of UX. Let me see the value of your content (not a sales page) and if I really like it I'll subscribe to a mailing list after .

I just put a fake email@example.com, and It happily gives out the download ! Wait a min, keep this trick private :P

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #79

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

Why do I need to give my name and email so I can be added to a mailing list before I can even see the content? Obviously this isn't a problem because the submission has the content, as does the other commenter's direct link, but I just hate this sort of UX. Let me see the value of your content (not a sales page) and if I really like it I'll subscribe to a mailing list after .

Just use a temporary email and call it a day.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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post #86

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Why does the author have to write a book just to get your E-Mail? It's a transaction. Obviously as the consumer you would prefer having the upside without the downside. The same is true for the vendor. We usually meet somewhere in the middle and call it a day.

Because my email is free of spam right now and I'd prefer to keep it that way, especially without a promise my email is not going to get sold around in a mailing list. I also shouldn't have to research around to see if a website author is the "type" to sell my email around, that's bad UX.

In that case, you shouldn't expect this information for free.

If you want free stuff, you should be okay being advertised to.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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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 yo…

Is... Is this some kind of parody / troll comment?

I fully agree with the him, and I don’t understand why would you think it was a troll comment.
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