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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
Oh, it's something I update very often and want to send emails/ask for feedback when I do. There's an article version of the top 15 acquisition channels available here though: https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
The survivorship bias [1] is rampant, especially in the tech/startup world. Huge media brands like TechCrunch talking about the "winner takes all" companies (Google, Netflix, etc.) Everyone loves to talk about the big winners
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
I think you need to make it more clear on how it's different from Product Hunt. BetaList [1] does a good job at it (with the term "beta"). It's also not bad IMO if you represent yourself as a direct PH competitor. I&#x27
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
It's extremely hard to make use of qualitative data without context. For example, 36% of UK users may use an ad-blocker, and 90% of them may be a tech-oriented audience, which makes a different if your site is targeting moms. I found t
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
Balkan countries can't seem to agree on this question as well. There's a current dispute between Bulgaria and (North) Macedonia. Basically, Bulgaria is not willing to recognize the Macedonian language, with their vice-prime-minist
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
I've seen pretty successful people/products who were REALLY good at modeling their product to a particular channel. For example, people making a simple video as a teaser, posting it on a FB group and getting 800+ "I'm in
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
Everyone talks about product-market fit, but not many people talk about product-channel fit [1]. I've been doing plenty of research on acquisition channels [2] and (besides product-market fit) they're the most important thing that
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
A good business will ALWAYS try to diversify their acquisition channels. I've analyzed/interviewed 400+ founders and what channels they use to get to (paying) customers [1] and this is a pattern I've noticed across successful
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
The basic premise of this article seems to be that, yes, entrepreneurship is not physics, mainly because human behavior is harder to model than things like motion and forces. So the TLDR (according to the author) is: "The point is not
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
This is a nice start, but I think you should also try to summarize them all. I did this with acquisition channels from reading 482 founder interviews [1]. The thing is, not many people have 20+ hours to spend reading through these articles.
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
See StarterStory, they do founder interviews with hardware/e-commerce founders.
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Top 15 Acquisition Channels I Found from Analyzing 479 Founder Interviews(hackernoon.com)
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
The psychological term for this is the "curse of knowledge" [1]. This is why you can find the best information from "indie founders", people who are 5-6 steps (not 1000 like Altman) ahead of you and outline their experie
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
As a night owl, I feel blessed that I have a flexible work-from-home job. If I was forced to get up at 6-7AM and travel, I'd be sleep-deprived for years. So hopefully with more companies offering permanent WFH options, this is going to
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
One thing that's better than "catchy startup advice" (someone telling you what to do) is reading/listening what someone DID. I've been trying to get to the next level and summarize such experiences (on startup acqui
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Top 15 Acquisition Channels I Found from Analyzing 479 Founder Interviews(hackernoon.com)
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Top 15 Acquisition Channels That Worked for 479 Founders(entrepreneurshandbook.co)
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
I'm really glad they understand the value they get from nomads. Here (in Serbia, a non-digital-nomad country), it was the total opposite; foreigners got almost zero help and they were left on their own.
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Top 15 Acquisition Channels That Worked for 479 Founders(entrepreneurshandbook.co)
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
Happened more than once. And it happens all too often in SV.
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
I'd be curious if people here also mentioned HOW their app/SaaS/online tool stays passive. I've been analyzing successful founder interviews for over 2 years now [1] and noticed for 'passive income' projects, u
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
Is it useful to have a startup financial model if you're still at the early stages? I've analyzed over 480 founder interviews (mostly for their acquisition channels [1]) and there's 1 adjective that defines their growth: &quo
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
I've analyzed 482 founder interviews [1] (most of them from IndieHackers, which are all small and medium-sized businesses) and here's the key thing I found about acquiring your first 6 "reference" customers: Aim for acqu
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
"Everyone is a junior developer" >> Philosophically yes, practically no. When you get a group of people together, there is always going to be a RELATIVE difference in skill between them. The consequence is inventing adjectiv
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
If you have a member in your team who's offended because of "guys" in "hey guys", then you need to question your hiring process, not the team dynamics. I found that the fact these people get offended by such issues
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
Why is there such a big difference in lingo between VC-funded startups and bootstrapped founders? Every time I read about a funded startup, I heard words like "VCs", "valuations", "pitch decks", "exit stra
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
You just provided one more reason why I'm afraid of commenting ;) P.S. Of course I didn't mean that HN is a small child.
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
I honestly found it quite scary to leave comments on HN these days. You have no idea whether it's going to get upvotes or get downvoted to oblivion. It's one of these feelings when you're speaking to a small child who can get
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Remember: Software=Magic for Most People(zerotousers.substack.com)
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by justiceforsaas 6y ago
I've seen this pattern across hundreds of founder interviews I've analyzed. [1] First, they start building some kind of "media brand". Here, the OP started blogging on Medium & guest blogged for a ROR startup blog. H

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