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It took us 176 days to acquire our first 100 volunteers.

Today, we acquired 209 so far. If you are struggling to acquire users, don't forget all of us have similar issues at the beginning.

But you don't have to struggle thanks to our Volunteer force!

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Just created emails to onboard 7 more Volunteers to skilledup.life and 1 to @DealLiteUK

Need to update skilledup.life/about a bit later

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61 #volunteer sign-ups today

Pressure is building up for the next week. We have to deliver the impossible!

skilledup.life/volunteers

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68 Volunteer signups short to get to 9,000 total on skilledup.life

Got some traffic hitting the site now.

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Everyone is looking for unicorns and winners.

Who is helping the underdog?

skilledup.life is here for you!

@FrancisPado

#techstartups #underdogs #indiehackers #bootstrappers #buildinpublic
My weekly progress update on @pioneerdotapp:

1. Team has grown to 24 skilledup.life/about/
2. Added 2 customers this week. 18th customer skilledup.life/the-long-road-…

Read the rest here:

frontier.pioneer.app/posts/ef16ead5…

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@CompiledConcept People are always looking for a marketing edge as well as somewhere to belong to. #NoCode is such an example. Same as #BuildInPublic

skilledup.life is built on #WordPress - 3 days initial effort. Then a heartache of trying to get traction.
skilledup.life – giving a leg up to #Indiehackers and #bootstrappers with #freetalent to build and grow their #techstartups.

skilledup.life/the-long-road-…

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 #Volunteers: 6,483 from 85 countries
💡 Tech Startup Customers: 18 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇳🇳🇬🇵🇱 🇿🇦
💷 #MRR £513

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Our #SkilledUpLife #MicroFund team is now complete for the time being.

First investment in progress - in a Nigerian tech startup.

Info lnkd.in/gJUamwPj

If you want to get into VC, this could be a soft landing. Get your feet wet before you dive in.

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Who would have thought?

Getting into our own Volunteer team skilledup.life/about has become quite competitive. Having to say no to many #volunteer applicants.

Wow! I reckon we have a start of building a beautiful community.

Thank you all.

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Records we have broken this week

- Best day - 90 signups
- Best Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
- Best week (4 short to 300 signups)

We need to keep breaking these records as we march towards the end of year 2, i.e. end of July 2022

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68 new #volunteer signups, so far today. Will we score a century of new Volunteers today? My fingers hurt from refreshing the screen every few minutes.

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63 new Volunteer Sign-Ups today.

#Nigeria rules #Kenya is not too far behind. Most of our #HR #Volunteers come from Kenya all thanks to a high-profile HR Director introducing us to her network.

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Stats

Volunteers: 5764 from 85 countries
Customers: 13 (USA UK Nigeria India Poland tech startups) with MRR £366

We had the best Volunteer Sign Up day on Tuesday with 81. So far, 46 today. Can we beat the previous best?

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Stopping the bad guys with Cloudflare: 1,586 malicious requests blocked or challenged in the last month #cloudflare

skilledup.life thank you @Cloudflare

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My weekly progress update on @pioneerdotapp:

1. Had one meeting. In negotiations.
2. We now have three Nigerian tech startup customers
3. Not done yet
4. Building the team

Read the rest here:

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An update on skilledup.life - free talent for tech startups

Volunteers: 5566 from 85 countries
Customers: 13 USA UK Nigeria India Poland tech startups
MRR £366
£5k Micro Fund: investing into a Nigerian tech startup: Aggregating farm produce

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