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How to find and win your first 10 B2B customers

Lenny's Newsletter

Our third or fourth employee was a part-time contractor out of the Bay Area, and he called the people he knew, like at Greenhouse Software, where he had consulted and had buddies, and asked if they wanted to try it out. The first one was an early employee of our last startup. Art by Natalie Harney. Let’s jump right into it.

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A guide for finding product-market fit

Lenny's Newsletter

In B2B, it normally takes two years to start feeling product-market fit Here’s an overview of how long it took 24 of today’s top B2B startups to get to (1) a live product, (2) their first customer, and (3) their first feeling of PMF: The median time from idea to feeling product-market fit was roughly 2 years. We were so proud.

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The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise

Webbiquity

But Blair isn’t just a cool guy that everyone loves to RT, he’s a “Twitter Psychologist&# & “Viral Marketing Scientist&#. Mike is the CMO at HubSpot in Boston, a marketing software company. 3x startup guy, advisor, board member. Frank Strong – @Frank_Strong. Mike Volpe – @mvolpe.

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