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

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Episode 790: Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) talk to Tyler Denk ( https://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 – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5s8443tfYUq3LLARJwGeYP 

• Beehiiv – https://www.beehiiv.com/ 

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Check Out Shaan’s Stuff:

• Shaan’s weekly email – https://www.shaanpuri.com 

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury – Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we’re giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

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Check Out Sam’s Stuff:

• Hampton – https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp – https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That – https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey – https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List – http://samslist.co/

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