On: How To Get Your First 1,000 Users

[vacanti]

Agree though I was writing the post more from the perspective of getting first 1,000 users. Focusing on adwords, facebook is good for going from first 1,000 users to first 100,000 users.

And, investors will definitely get excited if you figure it out.

[jiffylu → vacanti]

Mint used a combination of paid search and SEO/blogging strategy to get their first couple thousand users.

Dave McClure and Noah Kagan worked on that for over a year while Aaron Patzer & Co. worked on the product.

Dave talks about that in this video (Skip to 30:40): http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262665259