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Decoding how top startups landed their first users

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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Outbid.lol made $21,000 in its first 24 hours by turning participation and payment into the exact same action 👇 #StartupGrowth #MarketingStrategy #BuildInPublic
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Here is how OpenAI turned 10,000 existing power users into a massive public ad network 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
InVideo unlocked near-zero customer acquisition cost by turning every single giveaway entrant into a viral broadcast tower 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The most legendary growth hack in history had nothing to do with digital marketing. A tire company became the world's elite food authority just to force people to drive more miles 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Most companies pay for commercials, but Red Bull built a global entertainment empire to sell a $2 can of caffeine 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
1/ In 2012, King launched Candy Crush Saga on Facebook. Most game studios focused on making games fun for everyone. King took a completely different approach. They designed the game to be intentionally frustrating to force rapid user acquisition.
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
ESPN turned 20-year-old dead inventory into a global cultural phenomenon during a total sports blackout 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Most SaaS companies try to make you happy but Grok makes money when you forget they exist 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Worse quality, better growth. How Craiyon used "cursed" images to get 4.7 million users while OpenAI had a waitlist 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Founders often think they need complex code to grow, but Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia doubled Airbnb revenue in 30 days by simply walking around New York with a camera 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Founders often think they need a unique technical advantage to win, but in 1917, American Tobacco won the market by simply stating the obvious first 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Showtime is A/B testing a retention hack that leverages a 6-month, 4-month, then 2-month discount ladder to stop churn. 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Most brands optimize every marketing channel separately. Neurogum did the opposite and exploded 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This founder figured out negative customer acquisition cost. He made $5,000 in a week not by selling his app, but by refunding it 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Most creators burn out writing original content but Ian Nuttall built a massive X audience by treating technical documentation as a scalable arbitrage play 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
MiniMax used "Monopoly money" to build a massive marketing army. Here’s how they traded worthless credits for priceless social proof 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The smartest customer acquisition tactic I have seen recently comes from a creator who abandoned his massive audience to build digital real estate 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Rahul Vohra built an $825 million company by charging $30 a month for something Google gives away for free, and he made 450,000 people wait in line to get it 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Getting sued by Anthropic for extracting Claude's intelligence was the most brilliant accidental marketing campaign MiniMax ever ran 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Ryanair built a massive audience by insulting their own customers and turning complaints into a viral growth hack 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Giving away your product for free usually destroys value but OpenArt AI turned free credits into a massive user acquisition engine. 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The secret to acquiring early users is not a wall of logos, but building perfect mirrors for your exact buyer segments directly in your top navigation menu. 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A joke app mocked LinkedIn narcissism and sold in one week just because the founder disabled text copying 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Most freemium startups hide their best features behind a paywall, but Grammarly did the exact opposite to double their premium revenue 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Most founders waste years shouting into the void before reaching 10,000 followers, but the smartest operators skip the line entirely by buying baseline distribution. 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Oh My OpenCode hit 31.5k stars by understanding a single rule about developer dopamine and timing 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The strongest moat in AI isn't the model, it's a day-zero cash flow constraint 👇 #SaaS #AI #StartupGrowth #Marketing
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The most underrated growth hack of 2025 wasn't AI, but a feature called "Copy as Image" 👇 #growthhacking #startups #productdesign
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Most startups die because they are too professional to capture attention 👇 #marketing #growthhacking #startups #sales #SaaS
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Most corporate blogs are dead. Basecamp’s blog generates millions. Here is why 👇 #startups #marketing #growth #PR #SaaS
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Most founders think users want the hard truth, but the data says they just want a dopamine hit 👇 #growth #product #startups #chess
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Retention is the new acquisition, and Ahrefs perfected it with a single screen 👇 #growth #startups #productmanagement
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Z.ai is stealing market share not by being better, but by being unconstrained. Here is the breakdown of the strategy 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The most effective growth hack of the last decade looked exactly like a boring encyclopedia 👇 #SaaS #GrowthHacking #SEO #Ahrefs
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The best growth hack is selling a cure exactly when the patient is in pain 👇 #startup #growth #marketing #ai
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The best way to launch on Hacker News isn't to write a catchy title, it is to build a product that acts like a secret handshake for developers 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Aggression in design is usually a mistake. For James Clear, it was the strategy that built a massive audience. 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The most contrarian bet in software right now is building a massive platform on day one 👇 #SaaS #AI #StartupStrategy
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Superhuman turned their highest engagement moments into their most effective acquisition channel 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Most startups wait months to leave Google's sandbox, but ColorBliss did it with a single directory listing 👇 #SaaS #SEO #AI #GrowthHacking #IndieHackers
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Rourke Heath generates $42k/mo on Skool by intentionally leaving his YouTube viewers hanging 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Spending $162,301.42 on clothes sounds irrational until you realize it generated $692,500 in extra revenue 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
There is a way to close a sale before the user even scrolls, and it involves showing them their own data immediately 👇 #SaaS #GrowthHacking #Startups #Engineering
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
How a tiny agency beat a billion-dollar company and IBM Watson to sign early users 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Phil Agnew used a trick from fortune tellers to grow his startup podcast audience 👇 #growthmarketing #startups #psychology
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Two car flippers with zero social experience generated 7M views using a 2-hour workflow 👇 #growthhacking #marketing #startup
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Most creators optimize for views, but Thomas Frank realized the real leverage is in optimizing for cognitive fluency 👇 #growth #startups #youtube
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
MrBeast ran a stadium experiment that revealed why traditional marketing is dead 👇
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Anthropic just executed a masterclass in turning the December SaaS dead zone into a negative CAC growth engine 👇 #SaaS #Growth #AI
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Andres @entrepreneura.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Most founders protect their brand ego, but the really clever ones leverage it for distribution 👇 #growthhacking #startups #marketing
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