Customer Acquisition Channels

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Schaad: Startup landing pages must be customer acquisition channels, not interactive toys
“It's kind of like a customer acquisition channel, right? This is not your product. This is not a web site as in kind of like a cool thing on the web. There's space for that as well, but these are like Startup landing pages and they're basically customer acquis…”
Raphael Schaad Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 35:18 Common Mistakes With Vibe Coded Websites · Y Combinator
Walling: Developing four marketing channels simultaneously causes early startups to fail
“What you don't want to do is try to experiment with and develop four channels at once because you're basically, probably with your limited resources, not going to succeed at any of them.”
Rob Walling Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 16:42 Episode 768 | Reacting to Controversial Startup Advice
Liam Martin: Scaling companies rely on only one to three customer acquisition channels
“Next, there's one to three ways to get customers. That's it. Very, very few companies, if you look at their user acquisition funnels, actually do more than three, four, five Significant sources of user acquisition as you see them scale.”
Liam Martin May 16, 2024 ▶ 12:06 13 Lessons I Learned Bootstrapping to $20m in Revenues
Medeiros: Expand product categories when customer acquisition hits a channel cap
“So I think it's the right time when you feel like you've reached a cap for your acquisition channel for your current category, and you should start anticipating that.”
Isaac Medeiros Feb 28, 2023 ▶ 41:10 How a 26-Year Old With Autism Built a $10 Million Samurai Sword Business
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Hale: 80% of SurveyMonkey's customers arrive via unpaid organic channels
“About 20% of our customers come to us through paid channels. 80% through unpaid channels. Free channels. Organic channels. That is a result of us having, among other things, an NPS in the fifties.”
Tom Hale Oct 9, 2018 ▶ 20:14 SurveyMonkey's Secrets to Keeping Customers Happy for 20 Years

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