How to Talk to Users and Grow Your Startup
Users are the ultimate key to startup growth. Learn how to talk to users and discover insights to grow your startup.
Course Overview
With startups, growth is the ultimate goal. But many founders overlook one of the most powerful growth accelerators: user insights. Talking to users and generating user insights is the key to growing fast.
If you're wondering why you aren't growing fast or why people aren't using your product, it's likely because you don't understand your users. And chances are you don't understand your users because you're not talking to them – effectively, or at all.
Talking to users isn't as simple as it sounds. Often, we can't find users to talk to. We don't know what to ask. Users may not share honestly. And we end up with feedback we're not sure how to interpret.
Take this course to learn how to find users, lead effective conversations, and interpret user feedback to generate insights and grow your startup from experienced founders.
Key Takeaways
Who Is This For
- New Founders You are actively working on your idea full time and struggle to find and convince users to talk to you. If you're craving clear, actionable steps to connect with users, this course is for you.
- Existing Founders You speak with users regularly, but aren't getting insights from your conversations and don't know how to interpret the feedback. If you're seeking guidance on what questions will lead you to good, useful information and what to do with user responses, this is the course for you.
- Everyone Else You are an engineer, product manager or business lead and understand the importance of user data driving business success. If you want to learn how to better understand the pain points and needs of your users, this is the course for you.
What Founders Are Saying About Us
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Meet the Creator
Andrew Chen General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Andrew is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests in consumer startups across marketplaces, social apps, games, and more -- including being on the boards of Reforge, Substack, Clubhouse, and others. He previously led growth teams at Uber during their hypergrowth period focused on riders and drivers.
This Course Includes
📚 Immediate access to all course material
📓 14 detailed lessons
📄 Digital and printable worksheets
📝 4 assignments to apply learnings
🧑🏫 2 live sessions with instructors
🎓 Certificate of completion
Course Content
Week 1: 20 May to 24 May
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Week 2: 27 May to 31 May
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Week 3: 3 June to 7 June
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Transform Conversations into Growth
Have productive user conversations that drive startup growth. Created by experienced founders, and it's completely free.
FAQs
It's completely free.
There are optional assignments we recommend you do to apply your learnings.
It will take 2-3 hours per week for 3 weeks to complete this course.
No, you don’t need to know anything about being a founder or startups before taking this course.
Email melissa@iterative.vc with your questions and for more information.
Iterative is a YC-style accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia. Iterative invests up to US500K in a batch of startups twice a year. The investment includes 3-months of targeted growth and fundraising support, which culminates in a Demo Day to a network of 400+ investors.
Iterative’s portfolio companies have raised $168 million in follow-on funding and are collectively worth more than $1.2 billion. Iterative companies include: fintech startup Spenmo (W21) that closed an $85M Series B round led by Tiger Global; travel startup GoZayaan (W21) which closed $8M in capital and acquired it’s counterpart in Pakistan; proptech startup Propseller (S20) which raised $12M Series A; Sendhelper (S20), a home services startup acquired by PropertyGuru.