Startups Anonymous Est. 2013 · Read-only archive
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How do you find leads for your startup?

I've been trying web scraping, asking friends/family, and finding some leads on Twitter.  How else have you guys been going about doing it?

4 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Mar 28, 2014

I don't have any problem finding leads at all, it's mostly word of mouth. I've done a little FB advertising, that's worked really well.

I also put up a few flyers, and sent out some emails.

This got me to about 80 or so customers in a few months.

AAnonymous· Mar 28, 2014

I've actually had a lot of great success just looking at customers for competitors and going after them personally, perhaps with coupons or even direct emails.

AAnonymous· Mar 29, 2014

I found FB Groups have been an excellent source for me. I found some good groups and posted what I was doing but didn't do any repeat spamming to annoy people.

AAnonymous· Mar 31, 2014

If you tell us what your product is; we can give you better advice for your situation. Everyone has given decent advice so far but its very generic. Please tell us more about your business