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Business: How to Get Your First 10 Customers

A tactical playbook from Max (Y Combinator) on finding early buyers — where they spend time, warm networks, in-person closes, community outreach, and when tools actually start to matter.

AI Playbook2026-07-199 min readintroductory

Executive takeaway

A tactical playbook from Max (Y Combinator) on finding early buyers — where they spend time, warm networks, in-person closes, community outreach, and when tools actually start to matter.

In this briefing

  1. Key ideas
  2. Practical implications
  3. What to do next

Why it matters

Use this briefing to decide whether to deep-dive the full article for your current delivery problem.

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