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 SubscribersAli's Twitter handleHis most popular tweet (I love his contrarian way of thinking) Please leave a review for the podcast if you are a regular listener. Subscribe to the newsletter to get exclusive podcast notes and mindset-changing growth marketing mental models and stories in your inbox.