> In my experience, getting your first 10 customers from content marketing alone is: 1) Extremely difficult to get right 2) Kind of a waste of time (unless you'

> In my experience, getting your first 10 customers from content marketing alone is: 1) Extremely difficult to get right 2) Kind of a waste of time (unless you've got thousands of people in your mailing list). Talking to customers is the fastest way to figure out if the problem you're solving is even a problem at all. Golden advice for many people launching things on HN who get this wrong.