🔥 Jakob Jelling
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I run the https://t.co/CY0tpx18zy newsletter. Startup stories shared by smart entrepreneurs.
Aarhus, Danmark
Joined December 2010
If you try my newsletter you can come to my birthday party. It’s all about smart entrepreneurs sharing how they got the first 100 customers or users.
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Smart entrepreneurs reveal how they got their first customers.
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Btw - also wanna plug my own thing. I run a newsletter all about digital entrepreneurs sharing their best growth hacks.
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From the archives . Natalia Cebotari, a Moldovan tech veteran, built Osmos - an AI-powered networking platform for entrepreneurs - after a decade in EdTech and leadership roles at Yandex and VK. She bootstrapped the launch, grew to 5,000 users using her network, online
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It's Monday. Time to promote your product. What are you working on?.
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From the archives . Katt Risen, co-founder of Build The Keyword, built the first version of the tool in just two weeks using no-code and launched it on Product Hunt. She earned “Product of the Day,” attracting 800+ sign-ups, amassing 2,511 users, 3,237 sessions, and
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Painting some wooden posts for a new fence + promoting my newsletter (link in profile). Nice and diverse Sunday 🙂. How about you?
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Want a free (no-follow) backlink?. 1. Go to launchvault (dot) dev.2. Create an account.3. Add your startup. Mine looks like this. Follow me for more free backlinks 😉
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From the archives . Pierson Marks, founder and CEO of Jellypod, left Amazon to build an app that turns newsletter subscriptions into a personalized daily podcast. He spent three months building the MVP before launching. He drove growth through technical blog posts - one
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From the archives . Stas Kulesh is the co-founder of the team-culture tool, Karma Bot. It took a year to land the first 100 customers, and growth was slow—with just ~$200/month for two years. After joining YC School, he ramped up to ~$2k/month within months. Strategic
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"A simple product that solves a painful problem is much more valuable than a technicallychallenging product that solves a nonexistent problem.". - Tony Dinh.
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From the archives . Cameron Scully founded The Growth Archive, a B2B marketing/gallery newsletter. He gained his first 100 subscribers using shareable founder-involved content, high-value Reddit posts, strategic comments on trending threads, Facebook group teasers, $100 in
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This is actually pretty good.
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From the archives . Lucas Vergeest built Roast My Photo as a side project and launched version 1.0 within a week. The tool let users upload a photo and receive a celeb-style AI "roast" video. After sharing it in Dutch AI Telegram groups and a glowing post from a tech
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From the archives . Sarwech Shar built Birdbanner, a tool for creating banners for X. He promoted it via authentic, build-in-public tweets: a teaser post went viral with ~300 followers. That traction led to 3,000 site visitors, 12 early customers from a $1 intro offer, and a
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I constantly doubt if my newsletter will take off. Like really take off. Doubt is part of the process - to the moon 🙂.
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If you do not subscribe to my newsletter (link in profile), I will look for you, I will find you and I will tickle you.
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From the archives . Evhen, a UX/UI designer from Kyiv, created the AI apps directory 100apps (dot) org. To gain early momentum, he invited app owners to join for free and promoted each via posts on X. He also bought about 50 apps (for ~$50) and shared his reviews on X. This
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Just saw this made up computer bag in an IKEA ad. If they actually put this into production I think it would sell like crazy.
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