How to get your first 1000 users
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This week, I’m covering:
Design: Portfolio advice for designers
Product: How to get your first 1000 users
Solopreneurship: How to rest well
To get interviewers to engage with your design portfolio, tell a story
How a five-minute story can help you engage with interviewers
How to get your first 1000 users
, my friend and ex-colleague at Nintee (where I was previously leading product design), wrote a brilliant post on how we acquired first 1000 users at Nintee.
How to rest well
When consuming information, we strive for more signals and less noise. The problem is a cognitive illusion: we feel like the more information we consume, the more signals we receive.
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Thanks for the feature, Shivam. I've been actively thinking about the newsletter business model. Will talk soon :)