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This is what YC taught us about how to get your first paying users:
1) founders MUST do sales: You can't outsource early sales or hire a sales team immediately. You need to do it personally to understand the customer's problem because the product will initially be bad, only a founder's passion can sell a work-in-progress.
2) Manually recruit customers and do things that don't scale. Brex founders signed up their first 10 customers from their YC batch.
3) Simple cold emails: Use plain text, no fancy formatting/HTML, and keep it very short (max 6-8 sentences). Include social proof, avoid jargon and have a clear call to action for a demo or call.
4) Work Backwards from Your Goal: If you need 2 customers, you can’t just reach out to 10 people. You likely need to send 500 emails to get 250 opens, 20 replies, 10 demos, and finally 2 customers.
5) Most people will ignore you and that is fine. Outbound sales is a numbers game designed to sift through the majority to find the specific "early adopters" who are willing to take a risk on a new product.
6) Start with the Easiest Targets: Do not try to sell to big enterprise companies with bureaucracy initially. Sell to startups (short decision lines), people in your network, or previous colleagues. Pick the "low-hanging fruit."
7) Fire Bad Leads Quickly: If a prospect is dragging you along for multiple calls without committing, or if they don't have the budget, let them go immediately. Focus your limited time only on those likely to close.
8 ) Charge Immediately (No Free Trials): For B2B, if they don't pay, they aren't a customer. Avoid free trials and instead, offer a money-back guarantee or a monthly opt-out clause. Pricing validates that you are solving a real problem. almost every single company in YC gets real revenue. It's very hard, but avoid the temptation to give away your product for "feedback."
9) Track Data in a CRM: Do not guess if sales are working. Use data providers like CrustData or Apollo to get leads and to track your conversion rates at every stage. If you have 0 customers, data will tell you if the problem is the email subject line (open rate) or your pitch (demo-to-close rate).
10) Don't Forget Manual Onboarding: Closing the deal isn't the end. You need to manually onboard early customers to ensure they actually use the product. If you skip this, early churn will be high because early products are hard to figure out.
Learned: Let your body, energy, time, partners, users, investors, the market — and the future — all follow your intuition.
Find it. Trust it. Stay with it.
20 years ago, investors funded ideas. 10 years ago, they funded products. Today, they fund systems.
and layers it with the evolution of what founders must contribute — from knowledge, to effort, to sacrifice.