Ali Abouelatta loves early-stage start-up scenes, so he thought about starting a newsletter - First1000

He shared his exact tactics to grow his newsletter in this article and we dived deeper into it.

We discussed:

1:36 - Story in the startup scene and how he started the newsletter.

9:35 - How to improve writing in general if you?

12:30 - How he got his first 10 subscribers

16:10 - His tactics on promoting the newsletter on Twitter & Slack

18:09 - From 1000 to 2000 subscribers, how referral marketing helped him?

21:04 - From 1000 to 10,000 subscribers, what worked and what didn't?

26:00 - People who are starting today, how should they think about starting a newsletter?

28:17 - What does "value" mean in terms of creating content?

30:54 - Rapid fire round

33:45 - My summary and 5 mental models from the conversation with him about newsletter writing and promotion

Key links

• Growing First 1000 (this newsletter) to 10k Subscribers
• Ali's Twitter handle
• His most popular tweet (I love his contrarian way of thinking)

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