How did you get your first five customers?

Question

Curious as to how other startups got there first five customers (or first few)? Were they all people in your existing network? Did you cold email / cold call? Did you advertise? What were your most successful techniques?

parthi · Accepted Answer

Personal network, PH, HN. No paid acquisition. Built relationships while testing concept with a landing page first, so I had beta customers lined up at launch.
It's important to try to convert leads on your website early on since you don't have a ton of traffic.
The first customers are always the hardest. Good luck!