How I went from $0 to $1M in 12 months

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Episode 790: Shaan Puri (⁠x.com/ShaanVP⁠ (x.com/ShaanVP) ) talk to Tyler Denk ( x.com/denk_tweets ) about every step he took to grow Beehiiv to $1M in 12 months.

Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(5:10) The marketing kill shot

(7:52) launch a company with one story

(10:56) getting your first 100 users

(15:28) the underrated customer question

(1812) one feature

(21:59) 7-min customer interviews

(25:57) message from the founder

(29:10) big desk energy

(3239) 1 marketable feature

(35:19) death of a co-founder

(37:02) write monthly investor updates

(41:00) everyone is distribution

(43:10) school of common sense

(44:39) inherent virality

(45:23) don't make people think

(5016) the 20-mile approach

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Links:

• Big Desk Energy - open.spotify.com/playlist/5s8443tfYUq3LLARJwGeYP

• Beehiiv - mail.bigdeskenergy.com

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - joinhampton.com

• Ideation Bootcamp - ideationbootcamp.co

• Copy That - copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - samslist.co

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