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From Idea to 10 Paying Customers in Less Than a Week
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#12If there was a Cosmo-style magazine for startup founders, this headline would be one of the promos on the cover.
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#13Hey thanks for the article share. I know it is a little early, but in your 24 hour live chat support, have you had any abuse from your clients or have things been more self regulating for them?
Secondly, when offering your paid product service, did you ever consider omitting the 24 hour live chat support or is that a fundamental part of your value proposition?
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#14If there was a Cosmo-style magazine for startup founders, this headline would be one of the promos on the cover.
Now there's an idea.
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#15If there was a Cosmo-style magazine for startup founders, this headline would be one of the promos on the cover.
Totally. I used to see those types of headlines in magazines that my sisters would read. Like "10 things that will make him crazy for you" etc. (I won't even get into the all the weight loss ones).
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#16"Both of his products, while seemingly very different, actually serve much of the same audience." Exactly. That line is very important. In reality, he had an idea for a product and an existing market he had direct access to . That "less than a week" bit should really include the time it took to build the audience in the first place, which is probably a lot more than a week. A somewhat disingenuous claim.
My favorite title of all time is Tim Ferriss's "How to Learn but not Master any Language in 1 Hour". All others are merely vying for disingenuous second place. I guess it is all about marketing your blog posts.
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#17If there was a Cosmo-style magazine for startup founders, this headline would be one of the promos on the cover.
The rest of the magazine would be like, "patio11's dos and don'ts of summer SEO", "can lisp trim your application's waistline?", and "infosec schadenfreude! how to protect your app". viz., HN.
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#18Any blog post that purport to achieve anything substantial in less time that usual has uncounted costs. "Learn this new language in 20 mins (after learning to program other languages for years)"
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's true that the kernal of the idea may have originated earlier, and developed over a longer period of time (which is kind of what Dan explained during the interview). But the point I was getting at with this title was that it was less than 1 week from the day Dan decided to pursue this idea and actually start this company that he had 10 paying customers. Most founders have an idea, decide it's something they would…
> Most founders have an idea, decide it's something they would like to pursue, then spend many weeks/months working to validate it, build MVP, attract customers. You can't deny that WP Curve started and gained initial traction exceptionally faster than most. I disagree. Most founders with an audience can generally get 10 paying customers fairly quickly. And, frankly, I think 10 days isn't at all fast, especially thes…
For people who are new to creating/launching a product, 10 customers in the first week would be a huge win. So this is a very instructive conversation for people in that camp (who I'd guess are the majority).
And the impressive part of this story is its not 10 customers within 1 week of "launch" day. It's 10 customers within about a week of deciding on the "idea". Idea --> MVP launch --> Paying customers... 1 week.
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#20Hey thanks for the article share. I know it is a little early, but in your 24 hour live chat support, have you had any abuse from your clients or have things been more self regulating for them? Secondly, when offering your paid product service, did you ever consider omitting the 24 hour live chat support or is that a fundamental part of your value proposition?
To clarify: This post isn't published by the founder of WP Curve. It's my interview with the founder. If you have questions about their service, you should ask those at wpcurve.com.