Category Archives: First 1,000 Customers
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How Coinbase got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Coinbase got its first users? Before Coinbase, there was Bitbank, which allowed people to send Bitcoin through emails. Brian Armstrong, a startup owner, was fascinated by Bitcoin and delved deep into learning about its potential for growth and customer acquisition. He noticed the lack of a reliable online wallet for the cryptocurrency …
How Google got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Google got its first users? Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s at first created the BackRub – Google’s precursor. BackRub was Page’s research project at Stanford University. It used the university’s domain.The guys used their own algorithm (PageRank) for rating sites by their backlinks to design BackRub. Search engines were more focused on …
How Amazon got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Amazon got its first users? In 1994 Jeff Bezos came across statistics showing the web usage was growing at 2,300% a year. He didn’t just hop on the bandwagon. He took time to find a business plan that made sense in the context of that growthHe made a list of 20 different …
How Fiverr got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Fiverr got its first users? Fiverr’s founder, Micha Kaufman, had a small but annoying task to do. He needed to copy a chart from MS Word to MS Excel. It was too small to make a contract with a freelancer but big enough to be time-consuming.The founder thought that there should be …
How Udemy got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Udemy got its first users? Udemy started in 2007 as a software for a live virtual classroom. 3 years later Udemy was officialy launched. Udemy wasn’t too popular yet so there was courses on the platform. The founders decided to make their own one. Their course was called “Raising Capital for Startups.”Gagan …
How Etsy got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Etsy got its first users? Rob Kalim had a woodworking talent. He crafted a PC encased in wood. There was no place for things like that. He thought he could create one. He called it Etsy because he wanted it to sound unique.It was supposed to be a marketplace for people like …
How LinkedIn got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How LinkedIn got its first users? LinkedIn started in late 2002 by Reid Hoffman, but the site was officially launched in 2003. He had been working at PayPal, and before that, he had Socialnet (online dating with interest-based search for people).Socialnet was a failure. LinkedIn was created because Hoffman thought about a place …
