How to Get Your First 10 Customers
Y Combinator’s How to Get Your First 10 Customers offers a starting point to prepare customer interviews, map user journeys and identify assumptions before committing product work. Read the article or transcript at the source and adapt the examples to your stage; archived platform details can change.
- Resource type
- Founder lesson
- Publisher
- Y Combinator
- Format
- Video / transcript
- Access / cost
- Free public resource
- Access requirements
- Public YC library article or lesson. Some archived examples describe older platforms or market conditions; check current details before applying them.
- License / reuse
- Open and use the original publisher resource under its current terms. Source documents and template files are not mirrored by FounderOmni; website logos identify their respective publishers.
Turn a lesson into a small experiment.
Prepare customer interviews, map user journeys and identify assumptions before committing product work.
Choose a resource for the problem you face now. Record one assumption, a customer question and a measurable next step. AI feedback can help plan research; customer behavior supplies the evidence.
Public YC library article or lesson. Some archived examples describe older platforms or market conditions; check current details before applying them.
Sources & review
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