Interactive Guide to Your First 1000 Users

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This guide is interactive, and it will contain thought exercises and places you can write down guided notes that will bring clarity and vision into building your product in each step of the process.

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This guide is organized into 5 main steps:

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1. Ideation⁠

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2. Feasibility Analysis⁠

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3. Building MVP⁠

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4. Product Testing + Iterating⁠

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5. Go-to-Market 🚀⁠

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Disclaimer: As mentioned in the intro, there is no exact formula to build a successful product; however, staying hyper-lean and flowing through these steps are the best ways to mitigate risk in building a product that people don’t absolutely love according to my own experiences combined with crowdsourced advice from awesome founders and investors who are mostly customer-focused first, product-second.

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How to Use this Guide

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This guide is organized into 5 main steps:

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