Startup School by Y Combinator How to Find Product Market Fit by David Rusenko
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Sep 12, 2018 AI Snips
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College Garage To $365M Exit
- David Rusenko built Weebly starting in college and wrote the first line of code in February 2006.
- He grew it to 50 million users and sold it to Square for $365M in 2018.
Slow Early Traction
- The team spent six months building before launch and had a record day of 12 signups.
- They hustled on forums and slowly ramped users before applying to Y Combinator.
Run Rapid Customer-Driven Iterations
- Talk to customers, develop a market thesis, and iterate rapidly with prototypes.
- Loop: build solution, test with users, measure, and repeat until it works.