Many billion and million-dollar companies did not start out with huge budgets, they often bootstrapped to get their first users. This page contains insights on how 30+ well-known companies got their first users.

Tettra is an AI powered knowledge management system that lets you: 1. Curate important company information into a knowledge base 2. Instantly answer team questions in Slack via an AI powered bot 3. Keep your knowledge up-to-date and organized with automation

Viral Loops is a viral and referral marketing platform to launch ranking competitions, sweepstakes, pre-launch and referral programs.

Our subscription analytics platform seamlessly combines and normalizes SaaS revenue data from multiple sources, delivering a clear and accurate view of your B2B SaaS business. You'll be ready to make data-driven decisions that take your business to the next level.

Trace is a free image background remover. It detects the foreground in a photo or image and removes the background automatically.

Get access to high converting headlines. Headlime generates hundreds of headlines for you, simply by answering a few questions.

Hotjar’s visual insights, user feedback, and live interviews show you what site visitors do, and why they do it. Access all the insights you need in one place and join 1.1 million websites in 180+ countries who already use Hotjar to turn their clicks into conversions. Install a single script and get started for free.

Slik helps create more effective cold outbound campaigns by deanonymizing site visitors.

Planyway is Trello Calendar Power-Up and Chrome Extension. It gives a powerful productivity tool for personal and team time management and scheduling in Trello. It is as simple as Google Calendar. Just drag-and-drop your Trello card to the Planyway Сal...

Bullet Train is a Ruby on Rails SaaS-in-a-Box that saves developers weeks of effort.Bullet Train saves you weeks of development by starting you off with all the features that are the same in every SaaS, so you can focus on what makes your app unique.

Designmodo is an all-in-one solution to create website and email newsletter designs that impress and engage your audience. Create your email templates and websites 20x faster, with no design limitations and no need for coding skills. Postcards email buidler provides you with all the tools necessary to start building and customizing your email template - from scratch to the finished product in just a few minutes. Collaborate with the entire team to bring ideas to the table from everyone.

Previously investing @8vc, engineering @google, @yelp & @mailchimp.

Mailshake helps people have more conversations, qualify more leads, and close more deals than ever before.

MakeHub is a crowdsourced list of startups made by solo developers. It would be really nice of you to help me improve the list by logging in with Twitter.

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online.

Paste is a time machine for your clipboard that lets you instantly find anything you've ever copied and use it whenever you need it again.

Failory is a community visited by startup founders every day to read articles about entrepreneurship, interviews with failed and successful founders, insightful postmortems and our monthly reports.

Anchor is an app to broadcast your voice and talk with other people